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The Find dialog appears.

3 Click in the Find what text box

and type the text you want to find.

4 Click Find Next.

1 Click Edit.

2 Click Find.

Note: You can also run the Find command by

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Find Text in a Document

In large documents, when you need to find

specific text, you can save a lot of time by

using the program’s Find feature, which

searches the entire document in the blink of

an eye.

This section uses Word as an example, but finding text in

Excel and PowerPoint is similar.

Find Text in

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When I search for a name such as

Bill, the program also matches

the non-name bill. Is there a

way to fix this?

In Word’s Find dialog, click to expand

the dialog. Select the Match case option

(

changes to ). This option tells the program to

match the search text only if it has the same mix of

uppercase and lowercase letters that you specify in

the Find what text box. If you type Bill, for example,

the program matches only Bill and not bill.

When I search for a small word

such as the, the program

matches it in larger words

such as theme and bother.

How can I avoid this?

In Word’s Find dialog, click to

expand the dialog. Select the Find whole words

only option (

changes to ). This option —

which is only available in Word and PowerPoint —

tells the program to match the search text only if it

is a word on its own and not part of another word.

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The program leaves the found text

selected.

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The program selects the next

instance of the search text.

Note: If the search text does not exist in the

document, the program displays a dialog to let

you know.

5 If the selected instance is not the

one you want, click Find Next

until the program finds the correct

instance.

6 Click Cancel to close the Find

dialog.