[BobLitwack]

I've been using Word 2000 on a up to date Dell running Windows XP
Professional for quite a long time with no problems. All of a sudden
if I've used Find and Replace once or twice, it stops working
correctly. By that I mean it does not "find" what it is searching for
even though it is there to be found. I've carefully typed and re-typed
the search, cut and pasted and even had it search for the letter "e".
Nothing. If I exit and restart Word (not just that document - I have
to exit the entire application) it works again for one or two instances
and then stops again. While this isn't major it is a pain.

Any suggestions?

Bob Litwack

[Lene Fredborg]

In the Find dialog box, have you tried clicking the More button and checked
whether one or more of the check box options are turned on?
Also make sure that no formatting is applied to the "Find what" field (click
the No Formatting button to remove it).

Note that the settings in the Find and Replace dialog box may change even if
you do not change them manually. For example, this may happen if you run a
macro that use the Find and Replace functionality if the macro does not
€œclean up€� after itself.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools €“ Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation €“ add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"BobLitwack" wrote:

I've been using Word 2000 on a up to date Dell running Windows XP
Professional for quite a long time with no problems. All of a sudden
if I've used Find and Replace once or twice, it stops working
correctly. By that I mean it does not "find" what it is searching for
even though it is there to be found. I've carefully typed and re-typed
the search, cut and pasted and even had it search for the letter "e".
Nothing. If I exit and restart Word (not just that document - I have
to exit the entire application) it works again for one or two instances
and then stops again. While this isn't major it is a pain.

Any suggestions?

Bob Litwack

[BobLitwack]

That may just be it. I use some macros I wrote to search for and
delete some characters in a particular font. I should re-write those
and clear the special formatting before I end the macro.

I'll let you know if it works. Thanks.

Bob Ltiwack


Lene Fredborg wrote:
In the Find dialog box, have you tried clicking the More button and checked
whether one or more of the check box options are turned on?
Also make sure that no formatting is applied to the "Find what" field (click
the No Formatting button to remove it).

Note that the settings in the Find and Replace dialog box may change even if
you do not change them manually. For example, this may happen if you run a
macro that use the Find and Replace functionality if the macro does not
"clean up" after itself.

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools - Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"BobLitwack" wrote:

I've been using Word 2000 on a up to date Dell running Windows XP
Professional for quite a long time with no problems. All of a sudden
if I've used Find and Replace once or twice, it stops working
correctly. By that I mean it does not "find" what it is searching for
even though it is there to be found. I've carefully typed and re-typed
the search, cut and pasted and even had it search for the letter "e".
Nothing. If I exit and restart Word (not just that document - I have
to exit the entire application) it works again for one or two instances
and then stops again. While this isn't major it is a pain.

Any suggestions?

Bob Litwack

[BobLitwack]

Well, it sounded like a great idea but it didn't work. The macro
actually searched for a 44 point font and replaced it with a hard
return "^p". I've re-written the macro and cleared the find to
absolutely nothing (especially no formatting) before it ends. I saved
the macro and exited the program saving the Normal template. I opened
Word and ran the macro and Find lost the ability to find once again.

Puzzling. I thought you had it.

Bob Litwack

[Lene Fredborg]

I think that you have already done this, but anyway:
Have you also _physically_ opened the Find and Replace window _before_
running the revised macro (while the Find function works as expected),
clicked the More button and checked _all_ settings in the dialog box. Then
repeated the same _after_ running the macro in order to check that every
setting is now exactly the same as before running the macro?

--
Regards
Lene Fredborg
DocTools €“ Denmark
www.thedoctools.com
Document automation €“ add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word


"BobLitwack" wrote:

Well, it sounded like a great idea but it didn't work. The macro
actually searched for a 44 point font and replaced it with a hard
return "^p". I've re-written the macro and cleared the find to
absolutely nothing (especially no formatting) before it ends. I saved
the macro and exited the program saving the Normal template. I opened
Word and ran the macro and Find lost the ability to find once again.

Puzzling. I thought you had it.

Bob Litwack

[BobLitwack]

Yep. I've done that in the past and did it again this morning. The
Find & Replace fields are blank. There is no formatting chosen and the
"No Formatting" box is grayed out showing that there are no formatting
choices to de-select.