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The search "Find Next" with "wildcards" does not function properly
Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003.
I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and the box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All. I use two words, for example Essene[!.]@will and click on "find next" I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents in the begginning; and 2,500 footnotes. When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results at all: not even a message that the search is completed. Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time I click on "find" the cursor/search would return to the beginning of the document. When I clicked again on "find" again, sometimes the search would continuue down from the point that it had returned back to the beginning. I removed the Table of Contents and I get better results: more succesfull finds. But still the searches keep coming back to the beginning of the document and sometimes stop. I do not get a message that the search was completed. |
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The search "Find Next" with "wildcards" does not function properly
What's the question?
"Philos" wrote in message ... Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003. I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and the box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All. I use two words, for example Essene[!.]@will and click on "find next" I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents in the begginning; and 2,500 footnotes. When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results at all: not even a message that the search is completed. Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time I click on "find" the cursor/search would return to the beginning of the document. When I clicked again on "find" again, sometimes the search would continuue down from the point that it had returned back to the beginning. I removed the Table of Contents and I get better results: more succesfull finds. But still the searches keep coming back to the beginning of the document and sometimes stop. I do not get a message that the search was completed. |
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The search "Find Next" with "wildcards" does not function prop
I will place the question in the original message so that eveyone can understand when they read that message "Jezebel" wrote: What's the question? "Philos" wrote in message ... Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003. I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and the box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All. I use two words, for example Essene[!.]@will and click on "find next" I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents and 2,500 footnotes. When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results at all: not even a message that the search was completed. Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time I click on "find" the search would return to the beginning of the document, instead of continuing down. When I clicked again on "find" again, sometimes the search would continuue down from the point that it had returned back to the beginning. The search is unreliable. I removed the Table of Contents and I got a little better results: more succesfull finds. But still the searches keep coming back to the beginning of the document and sometimes stop. It does not give a message that the search was completed. What is causing the search not to be reliable? What causes it sometime not to start and other times not to be completed? Does the formating of a document have any effect on the search? |
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The search "Find Next" with "wildcards" does not function properly
"Philos" wrote: Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003. I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and the box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All. I use two words, for example Friend[!.]@will and click on "find next" I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents in the begginning; and 2,500 footnotes. When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results at all: not even a message that the search is completed. Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time I click on "find" the search would return to the beginning of the document. When I clicked again on "find" again, it does not want to search. I do not get a message that the search was completed. |
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The search "Find Next" with "wildcards" does not function properly
Let's start again. Forget your search string. What exactly are you trying to
achieve? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Philos wrote: "Philos" wrote: Concerning searches with wildcards in Microsoft Office Word 2003. I am using the following characters in the search: [!.]@ and the box "Use wildcards" is checked. Options: Search All. I use two words, for example Friend[!.]@will and click on "find next" I was searching a document with 397,000 words and with a Table of Contents in the begginning; and 2,500 footnotes. When I clicked on Find, sometimes it would not search or give any results at all: not even a message that the search is completed. Other times it would find several results of the search, and the next time I click on "find" the search would return to the beginning of the document. When I clicked again on "find" again, it does not want to search. I do not get a message that the search was completed. |
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