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Replace All isn't just restricted to selected text
In Word 2003 (Windows XP), I selected a string that is smaller than a
paragraph. It contained several dashes. I specified that a dash should be replaced by a space, then clicked "Replace All". Normally, this replacement is restricted to the selected text, but for some reason, in this situation today, it did a global replacement throughout my document. What might cause that? |
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Replace All isn't just restricted to selected text
On Sep 11, 6:11*pm, Paul wrote:
In Word 2003 (Windows XP), I selected a string that is smaller than a paragraph. *It contained several dashes. *I specified that a dash should be replaced by a space, then clicked "Replace All". *Normally, this replacement is restricted to the selected text, but for some reason, in this situation today, it did a global replacement throughout my document. *What might cause that? Solved my own problem. The More-Search: field should be set to Down rather than All to achieve the desired effect that I describe above. |
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Replace All isn't just restricted to selected text
If you've selected any amount of text before you open the Search
window, it will set itself to Down (and after it replaces all in the selection it asks if you want to do the whole document). Anyway you knew you could Undo the Replace All, so no damage. On Sep 11, 6:13*pm, Paul wrote: On Sep 11, 6:11*pm, Paul wrote: In Word 2003 (Windows XP), I selected a string that is smaller than a paragraph. *It contained several dashes. *I specified that a dash should be replaced by a space, then clicked "Replace All". *Normally, this replacement is restricted to the selected text, but for some reason, in this situation today, it did a global replacement throughout my document. *What might cause that? Solved my own problem. *The More-Search: field should be set to Down rather than All to achieve the desired effect that I describe above. |
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