![]() If this sounds appealing, let me know here. Microsoft Word allows you to search and replace text in a document with little effort. If you find yourself spending hours formatting Microsoft Word documents, I can teach you to reduce that time to less than 5 minutes. The solution is to hold down ALT when you press tab, and it will insert the TAB character instead. Hope that helps someone, my wife and I found it very confusing.īonus tip - How to find and replace tab characters:Ĭheck out my ‘replace’ dialog above, notice that I’m replacing a tab character? Well if you click the find box and press TAB it won’t enter the tab character, it will take you to the next box (oh no!). ![]() Finally it will ask you if you want to do the rest of the document, simply click ‘no’ and you’re done. ![]() Type the search text in the Find What text box. What you see now appears just like the figure. So: Click the More button to reveal the dialog box's powerful bits. You may see only the top part of the dialog box. The Find and Replace dialog box appears, with the Find tab forward. Choose Select to define search criteria: column. In the Editing group, choose FindAdvanced Find. You’ll notice that there’s no mention that this will only apply to the current selection, but you’ll have to trust me.ĭon’t press find next, or anything like that, click ‘replace all’, and it will do your find and replace in your current selection only (I promise!). Create, edit, or save a view using legacy advanced find On the command bar, select Advanced Find button. Now here’s the unintuitive bit - click on the ‘replace’ tab. ![]() Here you’ll see that it says you’re going to search within the ‘current selection’, that’s good! It’ll look like this (I’m going to replace tab characters with a single space): Then select Edit -> Find -> Advanced Find and Replace Select Tools In the Advanced Find dialog box, configure options such as word to search. Here goes.įirstly, select some text you want to ‘find and replace’ within. From the Search tab, from the Options group, select Advanced Find. It’s actually very simple, but Word tells you you’re not doing the right thing. This keeps biting me, so I thought I’d write it down.
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