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Find-and-Replace Doesn't Work
I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both
words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help. |
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Find-and-Replace Doesn't Work
Take a look under the find box. Is there anything about formatting?
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "slmjljlsj" wrote in message news  I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help. |
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A less likely possibility - Are you sure you are entering the string to be
found *exactly* as it exists in the doc? If it includes any Special Characters (such as em/en spaces, non-breaking hyphens, etc.) that is how it must be entered into the Find field. Have you tried Copy & Paste (you'll have to use Ctrl+V to paste into the Find/Replace fields)? -- HTH|:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "slmjljlsj" wrote in message news I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help. |
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Find-and-Replace Doesn't Work
Thanks for the suggestion, but none of the words/phrases has any formatting
that differs from the rest of the document, and there's nothing about formatting in the find box. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Take a look under the find box. Is there anything about formatting? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "slmjljlsj" wrote in message news I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help. |
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Find-and-Replace Doesn't Work
Thanks, but there are no special characters in the words/phrases, and I
actually highlighted one of the instances of the word/phrase before performing the search, and still received the same results. I'm truly baffled by this problem. "CyberTaz" wrote: A less likely possibility - Are you sure you are entering the string to be found *exactly* as it exists in the doc? If it includes any Special Characters (such as em/en spaces, non-breaking hyphens, etc.) that is how it must be entered into the Find field. Have you tried Copy & Paste (you'll have to use Ctrl+V to paste into the Find/Replace fields)? -- HTH|:) Bob Jones [MVP] Office:Mac "slmjljlsj" wrote in message news I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help. |
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Find-and-Replace Doesn't Work
Look just _under_ the find box.
-- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "slmjljlsj" wrote in message ... Thanks for the suggestion, but none of the words/phrases has any formatting that differs from the rest of the document, and there's nothing about formatting in the find box. "Charles Kenyon" wrote: Take a look under the find box. Is there anything about formatting? -- Charles Kenyon Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome! My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- --------- This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn from my ignorance and your wisdom. "slmjljlsj" wrote in message news I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help. |
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