UNHCE Information Technology & Distance Education Blog
April 13, 2006
Searching Within a Word Document
Word 2002's Find dialog box allows you to find particular words and select those words for easy editing.
Read on to see the steps for that process.
Finding multiple instances of a word at once
You can use the Find command to count and highlight the occurrences of a particular word in MS Word.
1. Open the "Find" dialog box, by pressing [Ctrl]F or going to Edit | Find.
2. Type the word or words you want to locate in the "Find What" text box.
3. Select the "Highlight All Items Found In:" check box.
4. Press [Enter] or click the Find All button
5. Word will display the number of instances of that word occurring in your document. It will also select them so that they're easy to spot and edit.
Posted by Barbara Wright at April 13, 2006 9:20 AM