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- Highlighting Text
- Search Options
- Special Characters
- Finding/Replacing Formatting
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Search Options
Clicking the More button in either the Find or Replace dialog box displays a set of options that provide you with more control over the find or replace operation. These options are described here:
- Search: The default is All, which operates on the entire document. You can also select Up or Down to limit the search to the part of the document before or after the location of the editing cursor.
- Match Case: By default, Word does not distinguish letter case in searches; cat will match CAT, Cat, and so on. Select this option to match only text with the precise case as the Find What text.
- Find Whole Words Only: This option limits the search to locating whole words and not parts of words. Thus searching for "eat" would not find a match in "beat" or "create."
- Use Wildcards: If this option is off (the default), any characters entered in the Find What box are treated as themselves—for example, "?" matches "?" as you would expect. If the option is on, you are able to use wildcards and other special characters in the search. For instance, when used as a wildcard, "?" matches any single character. (Wildcards will be covered in more detail soon.)
- Sounds Like: With this option selected, the operation finds words that sound like the Find What text as well as exact matches. In my experience, Word's notion of what sounds alike is a bit odd so I do not find this option very useful.
- Find All Word Forms: When selected, the operation finds related word forms. For example, searching for "eat" would find "eaten" and "ate."