Microsoft Word 2007
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Additional Resources
Microsoft Word 2007 | Find a Word |
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What's on this page... Using Find in Finding Text and More Find and Replace Text and Formats |
Using Find in Finding Text And More
You can search for a word in a document, and even for fonts, special characters, and formats.|
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The Replace
command is very powerful! Always save your document before you use this command. Then, if you replace text that shouldn't have been replaced, you can close your document without saving it, open your document again, and get your original document back. Remember, you can also use the Undo command for small mistakes. |
To search for text, follow these steps:
| 1. | Preferably, place the cursor at the beginning of the document. | ||
| 2. | Choose Home ribbon tab ► Find. (Located at the
far left on the ribbon tab.) OR Press CTRL + F. |
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| This will open up the Find and Replace dialog box, with the Find tab selected. | |||
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| 3. | In the "Find What" text box, type in the word or phrase that you are looking for. | ||
| 4. | To have Word highlight all the occurrences of the word in the
document, click on Reading Highlight ► Highlight All. You'll notice that all the occurrences of the word is being highlighted in the document. This makes for easy reading the document and locating the occurrences. You may change some of the occurrences as you like. To remove the highlighting from the document, click Reading Highlight ► Clear Highlighting. |
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| 5. | To do a more selective search in Microsoft Word 2007, click the "More" button. This expands the Find and Replace window with more options to choose from. | ||
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| 6. | Make your choice from the Search Options
group in the word finder: Search - Click the down arrow and choose All, Up, or Down to search the whole document, search from the cursor position upward, or search from the cursor position downward, respectively. Match Case - Searches for words with upper- and lowercase letters that exactly match those in the Find What box. With this box selected, a search for bow finds that word, but not Bow or BOW. Find Whole Words Only - Normally, a search for bow yields elbow, bowler, bowwow, and other words with the letters b-o-w (in that order). Click this option and you only get bow. Use Wildcards - Click here if you intend to use wildcards in searches. Sounds Like - Looks for words that sounds like the one in the Find What box. A search for bow with this option selected finds beau, for example. Find All Word Forms - Takes into account verb endings and plurals. With this option clicked, you get bows, bowing, and bowed, as well as bow. |
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| 7. | To search for words, paragraphs, tab settings, and styles, among other things,
that are formatted a certain way, click the "Format" button and choose an
option from the menu. You'll see the familiar dialog box you used in the first place to format the text. |
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| 8. | Click the "Special" button to look for format characters, manual page breaks, and other unusual stuff. | ||
| 9. | That "No Formatting" button is there so you can clear all the formatting from the "Find What" box. | ||
| Click the "Less" button to shrink the dialog box and get more room to work on-screen. | |||
| 10. | Click the "Find Next" button if you are
looking for a simple word or phrase. The current occurrence will be highlighted in the document. To go to the next occurrence, click "Find Next" again. |
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You can also close the Find and Replace dialog box and click either the
Previous
Find/Go To or Next Find/Go To
buttons at the bottom right of the window. You can also press CTRL + PageUp or CTRL + PageDown to go to the previous or next instance of the thing you are looking for. |
| See also... Using Find & Replace |
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Microsoft Word 2007
TOPICS
- On-screen elements
- Save a file
- Open a file
- Rename a file
- Delete a file
- Select
- Undo/Redo
- Deleting
- Copy
- Move
- Format Painter
- Font Attributes
- Font Dialog Box
- Alignment
- Highlight text
- Character Spacing
- Indent
- Line Spacing
- Change Case
- Symbols
- Borders & Shading
- Download Borders
- Page Break
- Section Break
- Header
- Footer
- Page Number
- Margins
- Landscape/Portrait
- Vertical Alignment
- Paper Size
- Print
- Print Preview
- Thesaurus
- Spelling & Grammar
- AutoCorrect