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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and
you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and
the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could
you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces
and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
When I Ctrl C-Ctrl V the smiley face into Find, all I get is a capital J. I
have Word 2000, btw. I am so frustrated with this, and not being able to make it do what I want it to do! Thanks for any help... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
I tried this on somebody else's Word 2003, and it works, but how about Word
2000? Is it possible? "Jeanette" wrote: When I Ctrl C-Ctrl V the smiley face into Find, all I get is a capital J. I have Word 2000, btw. I am so frustrated with this, and not being able to make it do what I want it to do! Thanks for any help... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
I don't have Word 2000 to test on, but my suggestion works in
Word 2002 and 2003. Jeanette wrote: When I Ctrl C-Ctrl V the smiley face into Find, all I get is a capital J. I have Word 2000, btw. I am so frustrated with this, and not being able to make it do what I want it to do! Thanks for any help... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
Even when Word doesn't display a character correctly in the F&R dialog, it
will usually find it. You may need to set the font to Wingdings. But see http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...aceSymbols.htm -- 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. "Jeanette" wrote in message ... When I Ctrl C-Ctrl V the smiley face into Find, all I get is a capital J. I have Word 2000, btw. I am so frustrated with this, and not being able to make it do what I want it to do! Thanks for any help... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
See also http://www.gmayor.com/Autotext_replace.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Jeanette wrote: When I Ctrl C-Ctrl V the smiley face into Find, all I get is a capital J. I have Word 2000, btw. I am so frustrated with this, and not being able to make it do what I want it to do! Thanks for any help... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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How to use Find and Replace for Auto Correct entries & symbols
Find and Replace doesn't work very well with symbol fonts. Indeed dealing
with them at all away from the UI is a bit of a pain. The capital J is a result of truncation of double byte input - and is a restriction of the text box input format. It is possible to find a smiley face in Word 2000 by entering the unicode value in the Find box Press and hold Alt Type 61514 on the numeric keypad (NOT the numbers across the top of the keyboard) Release Alt This will work for any character if you know the value - but there's no simple way to find it out in Word 2000. Also note that if you cancel the Find and Replace and reinvoke it, you will have to reinput the numeric code - Word 2000 will use what you enter but doesn't have the capacity to remember it properly - a full explanation is way beyond this newsgroup. -- Enjoy, Tony "Jeanette" wrote in message ... When I Ctrl C-Ctrl V the smiley face into Find, all I get is a capital J. I have Word 2000, btw. I am so frustrated with this, and not being able to make it do what I want it to do! Thanks for any help... "garfield-n-odie" wrote: Somewhere in your Word document, you already have smiley faces and frowny faces, or else you wouldn't be asking this question, right? You gave an example of wanting to replace all smiley faces with frowny faces. To do this: 1. Copy a smiley face from your document, and paste it into the "Find what" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 2. Copy a frowny face from your document, and paste it into the "Replace with" box in the Find and Replace dialog. 3. Click on Replace All in the Find and Replace dialog. Jeanette wrote: I am totally ignorant regarding how to go about what you're telling me. Could you please explain it more detailed, step-by-step? "garfield-n-odie" wrote: The smiley face is character code 74 from the Wingdings font, and the frowny face is character code 76 from the Wingdings font. For me, the easiest way to search and replace these characters is to copy and paste them into the "Find what" and "Replace with" boxes. Jeanette wrote: When Auto Correct substitutes a Smiley Face for semi-colon parentheses, and you later want to use Find and Replace to edit, how do you do it? And how do you use Find and Replace to look for symbols you've inserted? Say you typed all Smiley Faces, semi-colon parentheses, and want to change them all to Frown Faces... what's the procedure? |
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