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Problem with Find and Replace
hi,
i am using Microsoft Office 2003. I am having a problem with Search/Replace in Word 2003. For example, when I find Font: "Times New Roman", Size: 10 Points, Word is not showing me the portion with the above mentioned formatting. But at the same time, it is showing other formatting like 8 points or Font color: Balck etc.. This problem is coming with some particular files only. I couldn't find any difference in the options used by me on all these files. Please help me. -- Thanks and Regards, Renjith R Nair |
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Hi ?B?UmVuaml0aA==?=,
i am using Microsoft Office 2003. I am having a problem with Search/Replace in Word 2003. For example, when I find Font: "Times New Roman", Size: 10 Points, Word is not showing me the portion with the above mentioned formatting. But at the same time, it is showing other formatting like 8 points or Font color: Balck etc.. This problem is coming with some particular files only. I couldn't find any difference in the options used by me on all these files. The only thing I've ever encountered that even comes close to what you describe is searching some kind of font formatting, and Word doesn't find all the instances in the document. The reason for that problem is that Find/Replace also "sees" the information for Asian/RTL formatting, which isn't changed in an interface where these options aren't active. So, for example, the LTR is 10 pt and the RTL is set at 12 pt; therefore, Word doesn't find the text when you search for 10 pt. However, this problem does not result in finding other things, instead. I do have to wonder, however, if there's some connection. IOW, Word may be finding things where a RTL setting meets the font criteria. Use a copy of a document for the following test. Delete all but a paragraph of text where you can reproduce the problem. Test, to make sure you're still seeing the problem. Note the exact text where it's happening. And check whether the formatting is coming from a style, or has been directly applied. Now save the file to HTML format. Go to View/HTML Source. Look for the formatting information. Here's an example of what I mean. I changed the definition of the Normal style to use 9 pt, instead of the default 12 pt. font-size is 9.0, but mso-bidi-font-size is 12. So if I search for 9 pt text in my document, Find/Replace won't get a "hit" because it's trying to reconcile with the 12 pt. as well. If I were to manually change mso-bidi-font-size in the HTML to 9 pt, Find/Replace would then work. /* Style Definitions */ p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal {mso-style-parent:""; margin:0cm; margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:9.0pt; mso-bidi-font-size:12.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language:EN-US;} Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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Hi ?B?UmVuaml0aA==?=,
There is really no way to resolve this issue, short of doing two searches: one for any direct formatting, the other for the STYLE NAME. The problem is getting replicated exactly as you have said in your reply. I am a little confused over this. i.e, How I can solve this? My document has a paragraph with 13 font size. When I saved this to HTML, then mso-bidi-font-size was showing 8 points. It was again not finding the area. Then I changed mso-bidi-font-size to 13 points, then it was highlighting the area with this formatting. The question is, How can I solve this issue. because it is not feasible to convert it to HTML and do it. Please help me on this regard. Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) |
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