MessageDebbie and everyone, When Word is searching for a string and reaches the end of the document escape will get you out of the find function. The one thing you can do if you want to continue your search is either press yes that you want to continue searching at the beginning of the document or get out of the function, press control home and start again that way. Judith ----- Original Message ----- From: Debbie Kessler To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 8:04 AM Subject: Re: finding text in word Hi Michael and all; I have never had my find feature reach the top or bottom of a document without displaying that message of which you speak. When the message comes up, try simply pressing escape to see if it goes away and the focus is on either the first or last occurrence of your search. Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: Nicol Oosthuizen To: jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2006 11:23 PM Subject: finding text in word NB: This email and its contents are subject to our email legal notice which can be viewed at http://www.sars.gov.za/Email_Disclaimer.pdf ---- I must say control+page up and down works very nice with the find feature. It's much quicker than shift+f4. What I do notice though. When my cursor reaches the end of the document and I press control+page down or at the beginning if I press control+page up sometimes it will display a message box that word reaches the end or beginning of the document and sometimes it will just remain on the last or first occurrence of the text it found without displaying a message box. Why is this inconsistency? Can't it always just stay on the last occurrence without displaying a message box? Thanks