atw: Re: MS Word Search?

If style and case are not important, make sure you are
viewing all options by clicking on the More button
(becomes 'Less' when the options are displayed) and
click on the No Formatting button. Also make sure none
of the other search options are ticked unless they are
what you want.

  --- Naomi Kramer <nkr@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm
obviously doing something wrong, guys.  I have a
> healthy dislike of =
> MS,
> fed on bugs galore, but this strikes me as being
> over and above a =
> program
> bug.
> 
> If I perform a find and replace on a phrase (2
> words), Word finds far =
> fewer
> instances of the phrase than if I perform a find on
> the exact same =
> phrase.
> So far my best results are coming from running a
> find, switching to the
> 'replace' tab, replacing the phrase with the correct
> one, then switching
> back to the find tab.  Of course (or maybe it's not
> that obvious) =
> whenever I
> perform a replacement, Word takes me to the next
> instance that 'find and
> replace' can discover, not the next actual instance!
> 
> (is this making sense so far?)
> 
> I don't have it set for a particular format -
> although it may possibly =
> be
> searching only one text style?  Huh?  Can anyone
> tell me what I might've
> done to traumatise Word so?
> 
> - Naomi
> 
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