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Find and replace text in Microsoft Word
You might find yourself in a situation, when you need to replace a recurring word or text in a document with some other text.
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Select the text you want to replace with something else.
I'm going to replace George with Steve.
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Click the Find button (Ctrl + F for a keyboard shortcut).
You might find the Find button on it's own or "hiding" under Editing which you have to click first.
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In the left pane you will see all the sentences that contain text you selected.
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Click the little drop menu arrow and choose Replace (see picture).
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In Replace with: field enter the new text that will replace the old one.
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... and choose Find whole words only option.
This way you will only replace the actual words and not part of the words as well. An example: if you would want to replace a word 'day' with 'night' and you wouldn't choose this option, and your text would also contain word 'Tuesday', 'Tuesday' would become 'Tuesnight', which you most probably would not want.
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When asked if you want to search from the beginning, just click Yes and then OK.
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And all my Georges are now Steve.
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