[George]

Am using MS Office Word 2003, SP3. Having problems with Find&Replace, can't
find a way to 'reset' it and clear out old/prior find's...

1st step: replaced some text and style at same time:
For Find&Replace, I chose to find TEXT and replace it with TEXT-NEW with
Format drop-down used to make TEXT-NEW also have Heading1 style, while it's
doing the replace. Worked great.

2nd step: just want to replace some other text:
Now I want to do an entirely new Find&Replace... Find OTHERTEXT and repalce
it with OTHERTEXT-NEW... and ignore style...that is, whatever the syle is,
just keep it.

Problem is (for 2nd step)... it's slamming OTHERTEXT-NEW with Heading1
style. I can't seem to clear this out. Already tried clicking "no style"
under the FORMAT drop-down, but that is just as bad... it erases whatever
style OTHERTEXT had.

So, isn't there a way to start a new/fresh Find&Replace that ignores all
previous FORMAT-ing for the Replace?

Thanks,
George

[Jay Freedman]

With the cursor in the Replace With box, click the No Formatting button (the
rightmost of the three across the bottom of the Replace dialog).

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George wrote:
Am using MS Office Word 2003, SP3. Having problems with
Find&Replace, can't find a way to 'reset' it and clear out old/prior
find's...
1st step: replaced some text and style at same time:
For Find&Replace, I chose to find TEXT and replace it with TEXT-NEW
with Format drop-down used to make TEXT-NEW also have Heading1 style,
while it's doing the replace. Worked great.

2nd step: just want to replace some other text:
Now I want to do an entirely new Find&Replace... Find OTHERTEXT and
repalce it with OTHERTEXT-NEW... and ignore style...that is, whatever
the syle is, just keep it.

Problem is (for 2nd step)... it's slamming OTHERTEXT-NEW with Heading1
style. I can't seem to clear this out. Already tried clicking "no
style" under the FORMAT drop-down, but that is just as bad... it
erases whatever style OTHERTEXT had.

So, isn't there a way to start a new/fresh Find&Replace that ignores
all previous FORMAT-ing for the Replace?

Thanks,
George

[George]

Thanks Jay,
That fixed it. Greatly appreciated
George