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We discovered that when, on the find/replace window, and under the More section, if the No Formatting button is NOT grayed out, it is very likely that MS Word will NOT find the word(s) you are looking for!

Click on the Special button and de-select the formatting there...the No Formatting button is then grayed out and will find the word(s) you seek.

Thanks!
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Originally Posted by Herb Tyson [MVP] View Post
If it's truly working one day, but not the next, and you've done nothing to
the document, then I would suspect that your computer memory is going bad.

On the other hand... you might check to see whether the document contains
tracked changes. If it does, then hidden tracked changes can prevent you
from seeing what's actually in the document. Perhaps those words you "know
are there" have extra bits between the letters, preventing find from
actually finding.

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Herb Tyson MS MVP
Author of the Word 2007 Bible
Blog: http://word2007bible.herbtyson.com
Web: http://www.herbtyson.com


"Jauchart" wrote in message
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Sometimes when I try to do a "find" in my Word document (CTRL-F), I get
back
"Word has finished searching the document. The search item was not found."
This is true even for words I know are there, that I am looking at on the
screen. When this happens, it does so for whichever Word document I open.
But then the next day, it works fine, then another day not at all.
What's going on?
I'm running MSWord 2002 on WXP 2005 Media edition.
Thanks