If you are working on a long document there will be plenty of occasions where you need to find a specific piece of text, and scrolling backwards and forwards throughout the document is usually either impractical, or unreliable. Fortunately Microsoft have included a useful search facility that also incorporates a replace option within it.
- Activate the ‘Home’ tab.
- Click the ‘Find’ option near the top right of the ribbon.
- In the text box, type in the word(s) you want to find.
- You will see any matches below the text box, simply click the match you need to go directly to it.
Replacing Text
If you have created a document, but then realise you have made a repetitive mistake in it, maybe you have mis-spelled a persons name, then you will find the ‘Replace’ function very useful indeed.
To access the ‘Replace’ feature
- Activate the ‘Home’ tab.
- Click the ‘Replace’ option near the top right of the ribbon.
- In the displayed dialog type the incorrect text into the ‘Find’ box.
- Type the text you want it to be replaced with in the ‘Replace’ box.
- Now to replace the next occurrence of the text click ‘Replace’. To replace all occurrences click ‘Replace ‘All’
- For more options, such as those to match case, and replace formatting click the ‘More >>’ button.
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