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In the Find what box, enter the word or phrase you want to locate.
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In the Replace with box, enter your new text.
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Select Find Next until you come to the instance you want to update.
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Choose Replace, or choose Replace All to update all instances without stopping at each one.
Search options
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Search Specify the whole document, or from your cursor upwards or downwards.
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Match case Find and replace words that only match specific capitalization.
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Find Whole words only Avoid partial matches. For example changing "One" to "Two" doesn't cause "Someone" to become "Sometwo."
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Use wildcards Get partial matches. For example, "the*" finds "theater", "thespian", and "thermin."
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Sounds like (English) Find and replace words that sound like others, for example "they're", "there", and "their."
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Find all word forms (English) Find and replace all verb tenses. For example, type "find", and Word will return "finds", "finding", and "found."
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Match prefix Works with other settings to find and replace words with common prefixes or beginnings.
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Match suffix Works with other settings to find and replace words with common suffixes or endings.
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Ignore punctuation characters Ignore differences in hyphenation.
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Ignore white-space characters Ignore spacing between characters.
Format button Find and replace page formatting options like Font types or colors, Paragraph formatting (left, right, center), or highlighted words.
Special button Find and replace page and character elements such as Em dashes, tabs, or Section Breaks.
No Formatting Turn off formatting selections.
