Finding Text

If you’re not sure where to find some text in your document, Word can locate it for you. You can broaden the search so that Word finds similar words, or you can narrow the search to a designated part of the document or to text that uses specific formatting.

Find Text One Instance at a Time

  1. On the Home tab, click Find (or press Ctrl+F) to display the Find And Replace dialog box.

  2. Type the text you want to find.

  3. Click Find Next. Continue to click Find Next as you move through the document, finding each instance of the text.

  4. If you want to refine the search criteria, click the More button, and select your conditions.

    Find Text One Instance at a Time

Tip

Tip

To limit the search to a specific part of a document, select that part of the document before you open the Find And Replace dialog box.

Find All Instances of Text

  1. Do either of the following:

    1. Click Reading Highlight, and choose Highlight All from the drop-down menu if you want to highlight all the words that match the search. To remove highlighting from the text, click the Reading Highlight button again, and choose Clear Highlighting from the menu.

    2. Click Find In, and, on the drop-down menu, specify where to search to select all instances of the search text in that part of the document; then click Find Next.

  2. Click Close when you’ve finished.

    Find All Instances of Text
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