OK. In the Find and Replace dialog, Click the more button. Make sure all
the check boxes (Match case, etc.) are clear; that the box after Search in:
says document; and the one after Search: says all. Also make sure there's
no formatting such as bold, under the find what box.
These descriptions may be a bit off. I don't have W2003 loaded, and W2007 is
a little bit different (for example, it does not have Search in).
Many people say that the Word's find function gets hung up and won't find
things that are clearly there. They solve this by shutting down Word and
starting it again. I'm not sure that this has ever happened to me. I find
that I've usually forgotten to clear the boxes and formatting or that Word
has moved into a part of the document that has no result (headers and text
boxes--is that right, experts?). Of course, restarting Word does clear the
boxes and formatting and such. Just takes a little longer.
A couple more things.
-Check to make sure that all of your spaces *are* spaces (and not
nonbreaking spaces--those little circles that show up when show hidden
characters is on).
-Run the find & replace in final view, not final showing markup.
Hope this helps,
PamC
Eric wrote:
Yes, that's what I did. Nothing unusual, just the straightforward Find, which
worked, and then a straightforward Replace, which didn't work.
I used Find (control-F, or Edit/Find) with
Find what:spacespace
It found many instances of two spaces.
I then used Replace (control-H, or Edit/Replace) with:
Find what:spacespace
Replace:space
Replace could not find the double-spaces that Find had just found.
Replace doesn't *find* anything. It holds the text that will be inserted in
place whatever Find has found. So in your case I'm guessing you want
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And what are you replacing it with?
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