Have you tried clicking the "Less" button to reduce the size of the Replace
dialog box?

"Donnithorn" wrote in message
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Word 2003: The dialog boxes often obscure the entire screen. This makes
a
find and replace operation extremely frustrating. Since the boxes contain
a
lot of gray area, can't you cut the size?

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