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Find fails in Word 2007
Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64
system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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Find fails in Word 2007
See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org JGT wrote: Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64 system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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Find fails in Word 2007
How would that article be relevant to the Find feature?
-- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org JGT wrote: Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64 system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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Find fails in Word 2007
Have you checked to make sure you don't have any formatting or other
conditions applied to your search term? Click More, if necessary, to display the entire dialog and make sure you don't have, for example, "Match case" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "JGT" wrote in message ... Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64 system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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Find fails in Word 2007
The heat here is addling the brain
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org Suzanne S. Barnhill wrote: How would that article be relevant to the Find feature? "Graham Mayor" wrote in message ... See http://sbarnhill.mvps.org/WordFAQs/MasterSpellCheck.htm -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org JGT wrote: Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64 system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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Find fails in Word 2007
We have success. When I first expaned the find window none of the boxes were
checked and my first thought was that I still had a problem. Then I noticed the three buttons at the bottom of the window "Format", "Special" and "No Formatting". I had seen these before but never used them and just for the heck of it I thought I'd look. Clicking on the "Format" and "Special" just presented dropdowns and did not give me a warm feeling. When I clicked on the "No Formatting" button I noticed that the screen refreshed and the button then appeared grayed out. I then tried the search and IT WORKED!!!! I have no idea what I did to set the formatting but I'm now a happy camper. Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you checked to make sure you don't have any formatting or other conditions applied to your search term? Click More, if necessary, to display the entire dialog and make sure you don't have, for example, "Match case" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "JGT" wrote in message ... Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64 system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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I'm glad that worked for you. Although it's not that easy to apply
formatting inadvertently, you should be able to detect any that is applied because there will be a Format: line beneath the "Find what" box that will say, for example, "Format: Font: Italic" (which could happen if you inadvertently pressed Ctrl+I while the insertion point was in the "Find what" box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "JGT" wrote in message news We have success. When I first expaned the find window none of the boxes were checked and my first thought was that I still had a problem. Then I noticed the three buttons at the bottom of the window "Format", "Special" and "No Formatting". I had seen these before but never used them and just for the heck of it I thought I'd look. Clicking on the "Format" and "Special" just presented dropdowns and did not give me a warm feeling. When I clicked on the "No Formatting" button I noticed that the screen refreshed and the button then appeared grayed out. I then tried the search and IT WORKED!!!! I have no idea what I did to set the formatting but I'm now a happy camper. Thanks for your help. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Have you checked to make sure you don't have any formatting or other conditions applied to your search term? Click More, if necessary, to display the entire dialog and make sure you don't have, for example, "Match case" checked. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "JGT" wrote in message ... Find is failing in Word 2007 on my Vista Buxiness x64 system. Just to make sure I was not nuts I tried searching for "to" without the quotes and in my 148 page document I have the word "to" a bunch of times. As an additional test I tried using the same document on my WinXP system which also has Office 2007 installed and it works. I also tried searching a DOCX file that I just created a couple of days ago and again the find fails. I ran a Google search and found a few reportings of the issue but none of the reportings included a solution. Any help or suggestions would be appreciated! |
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Find fails in Word 2007
I agree 100% that it is not easy to apply formatting inadvertently but
something on my system is doing it. The find has been working great for several days and just now it failed and when I looked the "No Formatting" button was not grayed out. I clicked on it and like magic the find now works. Hopefully I can narrow it down and determine what is setting the formatting and fix it. But at least I know a quick work around to get find working again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm glad that worked for you. Although it's not that easy to apply formatting inadvertently, you should be able to detect any that is applied because there will be a Format: line beneath the "Find what" box that will say, for example, "Format: Font: Italic" (which could happen if you inadvertently pressed Ctrl+I while the insertion point was in the "Find what" box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org |
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Find fails in Word 2007
I have been reminded by a thread elsewhere that the Adobe Acrobat add-in is
notorious for adding formatting to the Find dialog. In my case I think it is Underline; someone else was seeing some other font property. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "JGT" wrote in message ... I agree 100% that it is not easy to apply formatting inadvertently but something on my system is doing it. The find has been working great for several days and just now it failed and when I looked the "No Formatting" button was not grayed out. I clicked on it and like magic the find now works. Hopefully I can narrow it down and determine what is setting the formatting and fix it. But at least I know a quick work around to get find working again. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: I'm glad that worked for you. Although it's not that easy to apply formatting inadvertently, you should be able to detect any that is applied because there will be a Format: line beneath the "Find what" box that will say, for example, "Format: Font: Italic" (which could happen if you inadvertently pressed Ctrl+I while the insertion point was in the "Find what" box. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org |
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