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4. Select, Find, and Replace Text Characters

Flavio Morgado

(1)Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Microsoft Word documents can be quite long, and whenever this is the case you may need to move and search through the text to find and select specific characters, words, text sequences, sentences, and paragraphs, and then move them, copy them, and/or apply the desired formatting options to them.

In this chapter you will learn how to move through the text, select, find, and replace text strings to easily format them.

The documents used as examples and the ones cited in the Exercise sections can be found by downloading Chapter04.zip file from this Internet address: ...

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