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Default For Find&Replace, How clear FORMAT for replaced text?

With the cursor in the Replace With box, click the No Formatting button (the
rightmost of the three across the bottom of the Replace dialog).

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George wrote:
Am using MS Office Word 2003, SP3. Having problems with
Find&Replace, can't find a way to 'reset' it and clear out old/prior
find's...
1st step: replaced some text and style at same time:

For Find&Replace, I chose to find TEXT and replace it with TEXT-NEW
with Format drop-down used to make TEXT-NEW also have Heading1 style,
while it's doing the replace. Worked great.

2nd step: just want to replace some other text:

Now I want to do an entirely new Find&Replace... Find OTHERTEXT and
repalce it with OTHERTEXT-NEW... and ignore style...that is, whatever
the syle is, just keep it.

Problem is (for 2nd step)... it's slamming OTHERTEXT-NEW with Heading1
style. I can't seem to clear this out. Already tried clicking "no
style" under the FORMAT drop-down, but that is just as bad... it
erases whatever style OTHERTEXT had.

So, isn't there a way to start a new/fresh Find&Replace that ignores
all previous FORMAT-ing for the Replace?

Thanks,
George