Chapter 5
Search for This, Replace It with That
IN THIS CHAPTER
Finding text in a document
Using special text-finding options
Locating entire words
Searching for text that cannot be typed at the keyboard
Hunting down formatting codes
Replacing found text with other text
Little Bo Peep has lost her sheep. Too bad she doesn’t know about Word’s Find and Replace commands. She could find the misplaced ruminants in a matter of nanoseconds. Not only that, she could use search-and-replace to, say, replace all the sheep with real estate. It’s all cinchy after you understand and use the various Find and Replace commands. Sadly, it’s only words that are replaced. True, if Word could search-and-replace real things, there’d be fewer sheep in the world.
Text Happily Found
Finding text is one of the most basic and ancient tools available in a word processor. The only issue has been whether the ...
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