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Find won't find, Word 2000
I was working in 3-4 documents and suddenly the Find command stopped
working. I press Ctrl-f to open the Find and Replace panel. I enter my text and click Find Next and I get a message that Word has finished searching the document and item was not found. This is a phrase that occurs hundres of time sin the document and one that it was finding minutes before. The only thing I did was open the "More" panel. I did not change anything (as far as I know) and close it. If I reopen the More panel, the search options are all unchecked and "ALL" is set in the Search: window. The cursor is at the top of the document. What did I do and how can I fix it. I tried closing Word and restarting it. I am about to reboot. Any more info you need? It's Word 2000. Thanks -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Find won't find, Word 2000
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:44:36 -0700, LurfysMa
wrote: I was working in 3-4 documents and suddenly the Find command stopped working. I press Ctrl-f to open the Find and Replace panel. I enter my text and click Find Next and I get a message that Word has finished searching the document and item was not found. This is a phrase that occurs hundres of time sin the document and one that it was finding minutes before. The only thing I did was open the "More" panel. I did not change anything (as far as I know) and close it. If I reopen the More panel, the search options are all unchecked and "ALL" is set in the Search: window. The cursor is at the top of the document. What did I do and how can I fix it. I tried closing Word and restarting it. I am about to reboot. Any more info you need? It's Word 2000. Thanks OK, I rebooted. When it came back up, Word was operating normally. Find was working. I resumed the work I was doing which was searching for the phrase "father". I wanted to turn most of the occurrances to red. I have a macro that I wrote that cycles selected text from black (automatic) to red to blue and back to black. After 2-3 searches and color changes using my macro, Find stopped working as before saying it couldn't find the text. I closed Word and restarted it and Find worked again and I was able to complete the task. as far as I can tell, I was doing exactly the same thing. The macro is as follows: Sub MyFontColorCycle() Dim svColor As String 'Check the current fill setting and set it to the next one in the ring If Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic Then 'If automatic, set it to red Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed: svColor = "Red" ElseIf Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed Then 'If red, set it to blue Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue: svColor = "Blue" Else 'If blue (or anything else), set it to automatic (black) Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic: svColor = "Automatic (black)" End If 'Display results in status bar StatusBar = "Color is now " & svColor End Sub -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Find won't find, Word 2000
Hi there
I might be missing the point completely, but if you want to turn some of the occurances of 'father' to red you can use find and replace: 1. Ctrl+h to open replace dialogue box 2. Type father in find what 3. Type ^& in the replce with box (^& puts in the text from the find what box) 4. With the cursor still in the replace with box, select More...-Format-font and change font colour to red 5. Perform the find and replace as normal. Hope that helps and sorry if I've misunderstood :-) Lucy -- MOS Master Instructor South Australia If this post answered your question please let us know as others may be interested too "LurfysMa" wrote: On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 18:44:36 -0700, LurfysMa wrote: I was working in 3-4 documents and suddenly the Find command stopped working. I press Ctrl-f to open the Find and Replace panel. I enter my text and click Find Next and I get a message that Word has finished searching the document and item was not found. This is a phrase that occurs hundres of time sin the document and one that it was finding minutes before. The only thing I did was open the "More" panel. I did not change anything (as far as I know) and close it. If I reopen the More panel, the search options are all unchecked and "ALL" is set in the Search: window. The cursor is at the top of the document. What did I do and how can I fix it. I tried closing Word and restarting it. I am about to reboot. Any more info you need? It's Word 2000. Thanks OK, I rebooted. When it came back up, Word was operating normally. Find was working. I resumed the work I was doing which was searching for the phrase "father". I wanted to turn most of the occurrances to red. I have a macro that I wrote that cycles selected text from black (automatic) to red to blue and back to black. After 2-3 searches and color changes using my macro, Find stopped working as before saying it couldn't find the text. I closed Word and restarted it and Find worked again and I was able to complete the task. as far as I can tell, I was doing exactly the same thing. The macro is as follows: Sub MyFontColorCycle() Dim svColor As String 'Check the current fill setting and set it to the next one in the ring If Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic Then 'If automatic, set it to red Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed: svColor = "Red" ElseIf Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed Then 'If red, set it to blue Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue: svColor = "Blue" Else 'If blue (or anything else), set it to automatic (black) Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic: svColor = "Automatic (black)" End If 'Display results in status bar StatusBar = "Color is now " & svColor End Sub -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Find won't find, Word 2000
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:58:02 -0700, aneasiertomorrow
wrote: Hi there I might be missing the point completely, but if you want to turn some of the occurances of 'father' to red you can use find and replace: 1. Ctrl+h to open replace dialogue box 2. Type father in find what 3. Type ^& in the replce with box (^& puts in the text from the find what box) 4. With the cursor still in the replace with box, select More...-Format-font and change font colour to red 5. Perform the find and replace as normal. Hope that helps and sorry if I've misunderstood :-) Lucy That's a very helpful tip and it would probably have prevented the problem, but I would still like to know what caused Find to stop working. Thanks -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Find won't find, Word 2000
One of the commonest reasons is that you have some kind of formatting
applied to the "Find what" box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 20:58:02 -0700, aneasiertomorrow wrote: Hi there I might be missing the point completely, but if you want to turn some of the occurances of 'father' to red you can use find and replace: 1. Ctrl+h to open replace dialogue box 2. Type father in find what 3. Type ^& in the replce with box (^& puts in the text from the find what box) 4. With the cursor still in the replace with box, select More...-Format-font and change font colour to red 5. Perform the find and replace as normal. Hope that helps and sorry if I've misunderstood :-) Lucy That's a very helpful tip and it would probably have prevented the problem, but I would still like to know what caused Find to stop working. Thanks -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Find won't find, Word 2000
On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:19:00 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill"
wrote: One of the commonest reasons is that you have some kind of formatting applied to the "Find what" box. That was one of the first things that I thought of, especially because of my macro, which does do some formatting. But if I had any kind of formatting at all, wouldn't it always show up after the "Format:" field under the "Find what:" field? -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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Find won't find, Word 2000
Yes, it would, and, given your macro, I figured you would have thought of
that, but it was a long shot! -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "LurfysMa" wrote in message ... On Thu, 10 Aug 2006 23:19:00 -0500, "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: One of the commonest reasons is that you have some kind of formatting applied to the "Find what" box. That was one of the first things that I thought of, especially because of my macro, which does do some formatting. But if I had any kind of formatting at all, wouldn't it always show up after the "Format:" field under the "Find what:" field? -- Running Word 2000 SP-3 on Windows 2000 |
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