Your explanation may be correct, but considering that the dropdown is right
under "Highlight all items found it" and Find All is active only when that
check box is checked, I never found that confusing at all. The new setup is
much more confusing to me.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
"Bob Buckland ?:-)" 75214.226(At Beautiful Downtown)compuserve.com wrote
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Hi Suzanne,
I'm guessing, that this may have been an attempt, by combining two
controls into one, to clear up confusion some folks had that
'Find All' didn't find 'all' it only found all of the items in the
currently selected region. For example, if you selected 'main
document', 'Find All' didn't include the header and footer area.
Selecting 'Find in'=Main document, without turning on the 'Reading
Highlight' should select all of the matches in the document
But then they left the 'Replace All' button unchanged on the other tab of
the same dialog g. I was expecting them to match the
change there. If you have first done a find in a certain region then
switch to /replace\ and click [Replace][Replace All] 'All'
means in the selection/selected area, if no 'find in' is done and active
then 'all' apparently means 'all' and can catch items in
main document and in headers/footers and text boxes. 
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"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message
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Ah, okay, now I'm finally getting it. But there is absolutely *no*
indication that this is equivalent to Find All, which I find much more
straightforward.
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Suzanne S. Barnhill
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Bob Buckland ?:-)
MS Office System Products MVP
*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*