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I need to search a document in Word 2003 containing jokes for duplicates.
The Find and Replace box has to be typed. Can I construct a query that uses the ability to highlight text instead? -- Al |
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On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 04:56:00 -0800, aljulong
wrote: I need to search a document in Word 2003 containing jokes for duplicates. The Find and Replace box has to be typed. Can I construct a query that uses the ability to highlight text instead? The Find (and Replace, if you want to delete any duplicates) does _not_ "have to be typed". Select (in your terms, "highlight", although Word uses that term for a different feature) the first piece of text and copy it to the clipboard. Open the Find/Replace dialog and press Ctrl+V to paste it into the Find What box. (There is a limit to how much can be pasted, I think 255 characters.) Click the Find Next button. Beyond that, it would be possible to write a macro to search for additional copies of whatever is selected, but it wouldn't be much more convenient than the three-step procedure above. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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