By default, the text that you last entered will be displayed. You can also use the dropdown list to select any text you searched for recently, or you can highlight the text you want to search for and then open the Find dialog.
By default, the text that you last entered will be displayed. You can also use the dropdown lists to select any text you searched for and replaced recently, or you can highlight the text you want to search for and then open the Replace dialog.
Search and Replace features
If you are looking for a specific term, you can use the standard Windows Find features to find it. If you want to replace the term, you can use the standard "search and replace" features to locate and replace it.
To use the Find feature
- In the Editing section of the Home tab of the ribbon, click Find.
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Press Ctrl+F. - The Find dialog appears.
- Select whether you want to search the Source Text or the Target Text and/or the Current File or All Files by checking the appropriate check boxes.
- In the Find box, enter the text you want to search for.note
- If you want to only search for complete words, check Find whole word only. If this option is not selected, words that begin with the search text will also be found.
- If you want to only search for words with capitalization identical to what you entered, check Match case.
- Click Find Next.
- The next segment that contains the search word will be selected.
- To continue searching for that word, you can keep clicking Find Next.
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Close the Find dialog and press F3.–Or–
Close the Find dialog and click Find Next on the ribbon. - Each time, the next segment that contains the search word will be selected.
To use the search and replace feature
- In the Editing section of the Home tab of the ribbon, click Find.
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Press Ctrl+F. - The Replace dialog appears.
- Select whether you want to replace text in the Source Text or the Target Text and/or the Current File or All Files by checking the appropriate check boxes.
- Enter the text you are looking for into the Find box and the text you want to replace it with into the Replace With field.note
- If you want to only replace complete words, check Find whole word only. If this option is not selected, words that begin with the search text will also be replaced.
- If you want to only replace words with capitalization that is identical to what you entered, check Match case.
- Click Find Next.
- The next segment that contains the search word will be selected.
- If you want to replace the word that has been found, click Replace. If you want to have all occurrences of this word replaced, click Replace All.
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