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    - Spanish to English translation. I received an e-mail in Spanish. How do I get it into English so I can read it? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52234
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    - Error Unknown Switch Argument Some one sent me a word doc via email and it contains Error Unknown Switch Argument on the bottom of the second and following pages. It is not a headder or footer and apears in light grey How do I get rid of it Thanks ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.MSAccessForum.com/ ~~ View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.MSAccessForum.com/ Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52228
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    - Unwanted format changing I have a problem when I create a document and save it then open it again my paragraph indents go all haywire. I am sure I am doing something wrong but I don't know what it is. Please help! Thanks Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52217
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    - How to retrieve my administrators password I recently change my administrator password now I can't remember the new one!!!!!!1111 Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52215
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    - Need help moving diagram between documents If anyone can help me, I would be most grateful. I created a diagram (using Word 2000) which consists of several rectangular Autoshapes plus text, lined up using tabs, with headings and arrows leading from text to Autoshapes. Now I want to use the diagram in other documents, but when I copy and paste, elements jump into new positions. I tried grouping, creating an autotext entry out of the diagram, and various paste options, nothing seemed to work. How can I preserve the diagram and use it in other documents, as created? Thanks for any advice from a desperate new user. Ann Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52211
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    - hyperlink i have a 200 page document and at the top of each page, i need to insert a hyperlink back to the table of contents. is there any way i can do this in one step, rather than having to repeat the process 200 times to cover each individual page? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52209
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    - Single-space to Double Space I started a long manuscript document with single-space line spacing. New paragraphs were double-spaced by hitting return twice. Now I need the document double-spaced but I don't want the each new paragraph quadruple-spaced. Also there are chapters within the document requiring special formatting. They need to begin with the first paragraph of each chapter about 1/3 down the page with a chapter heading. Also the first paragraph of the new chapter should not be indented. I've been fooling around with all the formatting menus, paragraph, auto- correct. I can't seem to get what I need. Help, please. Thanks Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52208
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    - Quotations--Straight and Curly I'm using Word 2002 from the Office XP package. I'm working on a long manuscript of a novel. I guess I started out with the Autocorrect quotation marks straight-to-curly unchecked. Then at some point I must have checked the auto-correct feature. Now the document has some straight--some curly quotation marks seemingly at random. I've followed the instructions to change all straight quotes to curlies to no avail. I chose Replace in the Edit menu with ' or " on both lines in the dialogue box and clicked on replace all with straight to curly checked in auto-correct. It doesn't find any of the straight quotes and doesn't correct them. I've tried this operation with the whole document selected and not selected. No dice either way. I'm working on a publisher's deadline. I'm about to buy a typewriter and do this thing old school--cut 'n paste. Somebody please help. Thanks. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52207
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    - word protected forms I need to use variable size text boxes to allow users to enter relevant data. The tab does not move from the form field boxes to the text boxes and the resizing of the text boxes doesn't shift the following data down, but simply grows and covers the next subject. any advice would be appreciated. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52205
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    - If fields and page numbering in mail merge documents Hello, Word 2002 SP1: I have a mail merge document where one of the merged fields changes all the time. If it is too big to fit on one page, it is automatically goes to the next page, etc.. etc.. In the footer I have the following { IF { PAGE } > 1 "PAGE { PAGE }" ""} statement. If I do not perform mail merge the above statement working fine, but I soon as I merged it stops working and { page } = 1 all the time. Did anybody else run into this and if yes what was the solution? Thanks. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52200
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    - Problems with Winword and a *.dll file All of a sudden, while saving a document with many Spanish language words that I entered using their <Alt>-xxx ASCII equivalent characters, I continuously get a page fault by Winword on some file named MS09.dll. I did a search on MS09.dll (including the MS knowledge base page) and could not find anything related to MS Word and the dll. Only docs I found dealt with Outlook Express causing a similar page fault on MS09.dll, with the proposed solutions dealing with OE-specific files. Other results led to Excel and Win2000 causing the same problem. I'm using Win98SE w/MS Office Professional 2000 and have used this system for several years without this problem occurring before. Any suggestions? -- Paul R Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52199
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    - multiple page template + mirror pages [sorry for the crosspost but I'm not sure if I'm asking newbie stuff here] Hello, Could someone please tell me if it is possible to create a multiple page template in word? The front page should contain a title and some pictures. The second page an introduction. The following pages the table of contents (automatically generated) And then the actual content (and I really don't know if this can be done) . All pages must be 3 columns the first column not very wide the second and third column wider for the text, on some pages the first column will contain pictures, on some nothing. The content pages must be mirrorred from each other (so the columns with the images don't show through te paper on the next page) Where do I start? Can multiple page templates be done in word? Do I work with master page layout, or not? The Word helpfile isn't very helpfull... All tips on how I should start with this are greatly appreciated! Thank you, Bert Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52194
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    - GUIDs. Do Microsoft still use the GUID tracking for World/Excel documents. Does anyone know if they did in the Word release for Windows ME? Thanks. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52193
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    - clipart - download/viewer Hello All, I click clipart online which lead me the the gallery. Select the pictures. Click download. Prompted to save to disk. Click OK. Now it is in D:/business. How do I export this single file with earlier selected pictures to Word so I can use it? Prior checking at Word- download clips didn't show the new clips. I also made a mistake by trying to open the file with Imaging software, unsucessfully. Now this file has the blue magnifying glass icon associated with it. How do I revert this association back to the original microsoft viewer? I have tried open with, search for the microsoft viewer program but couldn't find it? Help appreciated. Thanks. Patrick Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52191
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    - default values of page setup? I have written a program that creates a document. When I try to open the document with my MSWord (OfficeXP) it is displayed correctly. But when I open the same document at my friends computer, the format becomes bad. (Lines that are supposed to be on page 1, go to page 2) The reason is that "File->Page Setup->Paper->Height" value is different in my Word application. (29,7 cm at my computer, whereas 27,4 cm at my friend's) Why are these values different in Word applications? What is the default values ? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52171
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    - Inadequate Support I purchased upgrade from Word-97 to Word 2002 to overcome a known problem in former. I received this thru Dell two days ago. 2002 didn't solve the problem and has more of its own. Dell was totally unable to respond, and Microsoft offers no support. I am not paying either for support of a product purchased less than a week ago. I am posting this to record my frustration with the inability of Microsoft, Dell and AOL to respond to simple issues, including return authorization requests. (I have just submitted such a request with Dell via http://support.dell.com/Dellcare/returns.aspx? ref=contactus after their phone center repeatedly proved unable to connect me for such purposes) Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52149
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    - Move Spelling Dictionary I just got a new computer with Office 2003 (my old computer, in another room, has Office 2000). With some difficulty, I managed to move my templates and autocorrect entries, but I'm stuck with regard to moving my spelling dictionary from one machine to the other. Any ideas? Thanks, Ross Payne Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52147
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    - Picture hyperlink Hi everyone, With my new Document Header Navigation almost complete, I have one more question to ask of all of you, if this is possible. How would I make a picture a hyperlink so that you can move back and forth between pages? Also, would this keep over to PDF if it's possible. Cheers. Thomas Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52144
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    - sending document using aol I have tried unsuccessfully to send a document as email but Word keeps trying to send using hotmail, even when I am signed on to hotmail) I have as account) I refuses to send. can anyone help? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52139
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    - Footer help please Hi all I have created a 40 page document and added automatic numbering in the footer, When I print or Print preview it cuts off part of the number . Any ideas please im desperate to sort this tonight Thanks Jules -- www.guttering.co.uk www.sonycam.co.uk www.sonycam.co.uk/dvd Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52136
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    - Linking WORD Files Hi: Environment: WORD2000, XP platform. I have the following scenario: Document 1 text lines 1 ----------- LINK -----> document 2 text lines 2 I used the INSERT|FILE|INSERT AS LINK to link to the text in Document 2. I was under the impression that if I used links to files I could change the text in Document 2 and have that change reflected in Document 1 when I re-opened Document 1. However, this does not occur and I have to delete and re-enter the link. The questions are: Am I using the wrong WORD function to accomplish this? If the wrong function, what do I use? Do I use a field function? Any help would be greatly appreciated and I thank you in advance for the help. Jerry Bodoff Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52134
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    - File Information Summary garbled, retaining bad info, how to clear info? Using WIN 2000 Pro; NTFS, with Office 2000 (updates up to date on both). = =20 I have found that the system is somehow retaining obsolete summary = information about obsolete (and indeed long deleted and vanished) files = that had Summary pages. For instance, I have a document called = ''d:\documents\home\Sophia\dog at large.doc''. In the ''Title'' = Section, under Properties>Summary (tab)>Advanced (button), I find that = the title shows as ''Springfield/Greene County dog catcher''. However, = I also notice there are two other listings to choose from. Both are = from long dead and gone files. Taking the first one as an example, it = is ''Small Shell'' (an old desktop shortcut to a 16 bit, DOS 5.0 = application, long deleted). Now, the ''Springfield/Greene County'' = entry should have been under the ''subject'' field instead of the title, = so I decided to delete it from there and put it where it ought to be. = However, I find I can add stuff to the list of choices here, but I = CANNOT delete stuff. I cannot for instance, make that ''Small Shell'' = entry go away. Furthermore, anything I add shows up under the = Properties of ALL subsequent documents that I check on. For an example. I decided to download, fresh from Microsoft, a document = from the knowledge base called ''msgina.doc'' (just picked it at = random). Then in the ''Subject'' line to the previously mentioned ''dog = at large.doc'' file I added ''whatever'' as the subject. Then I go to = the msgina.doc, which is brand new, never been opened before, and I find = on the ''subject'' line and option to choose from that says = ''whatever''. I cannot get this to clear. (And as an aside I might = mention that there appears to be some garbaged, garbled data being = retained.) Now, obviously, the data on the file information summaries is being kept = somewhere besides in the files themselves. But, I can't find it; a = registry search for anything that would turn up ''small shell'' for = instance comes up blank. A text search for any file containing the = words ''small shell'' comes up blank. =20 Quaere then: where is this data being maintained? How do I find it and = clear it, or delete it? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52133
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    - Windows and styles I have been converting from word 97 to word 2002 for windows xp I have two problems that I'd like to fix if possible. First Is there any way that I can get word to open multiple document windows in the same parent window instead of two completely separate instances? I often have two documents side by side in word. I "alt-tab" to another program. When I want to "alt-tab" back to word, I have to do it twice. I know that I can just click on the icons on the task bar, but I find the keyboard much faster. Second I use paragraph styles. In word 97, I could change paragraph styles by pressing 'alt-o-s', the first letter of the style that I want (say N for normal) and enter. When I do this in word 2002, a style window opens up and stays open after I select the style that I want. I then must close that window. I can see that this would be handy if I wanted to browse the document and change styles at will. But to change one paragraph, its a drag. Is there a keyboard shortcut for selecting a style without the window? -- Rick English Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52121
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    - Shortcut Keys I previously posted a question re: shortcut keys in Word 2002. I stated that the combination of Ctrl+Home should take me to the "Start of Document". However, this combination instead calls up the "Find and Replace" box. I have checked in "Customize Keyboard"..Categories" .. All Commands" ..Commands, "Startofdocument" ... and verified that the combination of Ctrl+Home is assigned, as it should be, to "Start of Document", yet the program doesn't work that way. Since the proper combination of keys is assigned as indicated, what else could be causing me to get the "Find and Replace" box? I can't reassign the keys, as suggested in one reply, as they are already correctly assigned. Any other suggestions as to how to make this shortcut key combination work properly would be greatly appreciated. Thanks again, Irene L. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52120
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    - Links I want to link two parts of the same business letter so that what I type into the one part appears in the other. If possible I'd like to make a template that will create a document with this property. For example, in the following message, I only want to type "ABC Company" once (in the opening address). Mr. John Smith "ABC Company, Inc." 123 Elm St. Mayberry, NY Dear Mr. Smith, I am selling a widget that is perfectly suited for use by "ABC Company, Inc." I think it will boost the sales of "ABC Company, Inc." dramatically. [more text] So, in conclusion, if you think "ABC Company, Inc." can use this widget, please contact me. In the template, I've tried selecting the text "ABC Company" and bookmarking it, then using "Paste Special" to put a link somewhere else in the text. But when I create a document from that template, the links get all mixed up and don't work. It keeps asking me if I want to save the changes I made to the template. Steve Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52117
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    - Header HyperLinks & Conversion to PDF Hello, Another problem, I've made a hyperlink in the Header of the document what always goes to a contents page. This works fine in normal word, but when I convert it to PDF, the link does not work. Other links within the page work, only the header and footer ones don't. Any suggesstions? Cheers. Thomas Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52111
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    - Dyamic Text Based On Section Titles Hi Everyone, This is a little hard for me to explain, but I'll give it a go. I'm trying to create a document that at the top (in the header) you have a bunch of information: ex. Name of Company {Section Title} ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------ Contents Prev. { PAGE} Next Where {Section Title} is, I would like text to be inserted there based on what section the person is in. The document I'm editing is very long (about 400 pages), and this will eventually be converted into PDF. So I don't want to have to write out the section titles for a large amount of sections. Is there a way of doing this? If so how? I've tried my hand at using Fields and thier codes, but nothing works. Eventually, when creating the PDF, I would like all the links and such to be created from the Word file so I don't hve to edit the PDF to do all these links. Any help and examples would be appreciated. Thank you. Thomas Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52107
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    - Copying data without formatting When I copy data from another Microsort Word document or from some other source, the copied text brings with it the formatting in the copied document. Is there a way to copy such text and leave its original formatting behind? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52102
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    - Mail Merge? I need to print 170,000 small labels, quite simply numbered 000001 to 170,000. I suspect Mail Merge might be the answer if I can get the numbers to increment by 1 for each label. (I don't know any VBA), but I could also do with a print "From" and "To" user input facility. Can anyone point me in the right direction, or possibly advise me on what literature I need to be reading. (First Post on this Board, not sure what sort of response I'm going to get) @mospheric If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours ------------------------------------------------ ~~ Message posted from http://www.ExcelTip.com/ ~~ View and post usenet messages directly from http://www.ExcelForum.com/ Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52100
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    - Re: Code to return exactly the same file size as Properties dialog Is it possible that my macro is more accurate than the Properties dialog and Explorer? In every instance I've tested, the Propertes dialog in rounding off the size of the file in MBs to the form #.## MB doesn't properly round the number but simply leaves the hundredths column as it is, regardless of the value in the thousandths column. So for example a raw MB size of 1.228027 is correctly resolved by my macro as 1.23MB, while the Properties dialog shows it as 1.22 Yet a raw MB of 1.49414 MB is shown correctly as 1.49, both by my macro and the Properties dialog. Of course, it's possible that my raw MB number, derived by dividing the bytes by 1048576, is incorrect, and that Windows is using a different raw MB number. Yet the consistency of my results would suggest otherwise. This may seem like a trivial issue, but it's interesting getting at the bottom of it. Larry Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52097
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    - Word cannot start the converter doswrd32.cnv Hi, Win98 Word2000 There have been a couple of occassions where I am trying to open what appears to be a simple txt file through Word2000 when I get the following error message: ..........................Word cannot start the converter doswrd32.cnv........................ If I click "OK", most of the times the file opens anyway. I have done serach of the Microsoft site and find no references at all to this converter for Word2000. Any ideas? Thanks, Jeff Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52086
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    - normal.doc Can anyone point me to a really good explanation of normal.doc. Mainly I would like to make formatting changes to normal.doc. For instance, I would like to change the margins and the font type and size and make that permanent. Can I simply make those changes on a blank document and then save that document as normal.doc? Any explanation would be of great help to me. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52076
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    - derive kilobytes from bytes Is there a formula to convert bytes to kilobytes, which would work with any number of bytes? I want this for a macro in which I save a backup copy of a template, and at the end of the macro I display a msgbox with some information including the size of the newly saved template. I want this to be in the same format that you see in the File Properties dialog, with both the bytes and the kilobytes. The problem is that this involves more than simply dividing the number of bytes by 1.024 to get the number of kilobytes. That computation works with smaller files, but not with larger files. Thanks, Larry Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52071
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    - Using Tab Key in Excel My tab key was originally set to move one cell to the right. I don't know what I did, but it is now jumping 11 or 12 spaces to the right when I press it. How do I get this back to moving me one cell to the right? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52068
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    - Trouble reading posts Is there an option - somewhere - to instruct these posted messages to wrap within the viewable window. Some of them travel to the ends of the earth. It's like reading notepad contents without wordwrap enabled. Thanks. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52067
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    - Useless..... You set the password to modify the contents of your word file and what you find that any body can open that file in notepad and delete all the cotents (no one would ask you to enter password).................. Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52064
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    - After updating OEM Word 2002 to Retail Office XP Serial Numbers did not change. Hi, I recently upgraded my office products. I had MS Office 2000 Pro installed on my computer. I also had Word 2002 installed as it came with the computer and is an OEM version. I recently upgraded to MS Office XP Pro Developers edition. When opening MS Word 2002 the opening screen shows the OEM serial number. When the program opens and I go to the Help Menu and display About Microsoft Word it shows the correct serial number for the retail version. Is there a way that I can fix this? Thank you for your time and efforts Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52063
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    - Moving data from Word document to Works database I am trying to move some of my wife's recipes from an old PS1 to a Works database. (They are in an application program and not accessible electronically) I have printed the recipes and have scanned them in. When I OCR them into Word and try to cut and paste them into the database, they appear in the database as a picture not text. Is there a way to cut and paste items from Word as text? Or is it something in the OCR program? Thank you Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52061
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    - ReadOnly Password When a save a file in Word 2000 but saving it in Txt format (by choosing the SAVE AS type as Text format) and set the password to open that file............it's doesn't ask me the password when I open that file. Test it in ur machine then tell me whether it's happening in ur machine also.. thanks in advance! Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52060
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    - Replace paraagraph break with space? I have a document with paragraph breaks at the end of each line. I tried to use find/replace to replace each paragraph break with a space, but was unsuccessful. How do I replace paragraph breaks (and the line break character also) with a space? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52056
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    - WORD Document Scan and print Objective: Scan a form, retrieve it in WORD 2000, enter info onto the appropriate lines and print. Problem: Text boxes can be created and placed in position on screen but the text boxes do not print where they should be. 1. How do I anchor the text boxes and/or, 2. Is there another way to accomplish this without purchasing a program like Adobe Acrobat "Capture ($399)? Thank you for any help you can offer. John Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52046
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    - Styles Hello! I don't know if you will be able to help me or not but thought that it was worth a crack. I am working for a health and safety company and have been charged with the mammoth task of tidying up all of the templates that they use, and making them into generic formats. I am not very computer oreintated and am finding this really hard. Wonder if you could awnser some questions for me?!?! When there is a table in a template and you are using the bullet points and numbers, how do I get the letters to not have a full stop after them? e.g a b c not a. b. c.?? When I started a new template this morning I suddenly found that I cannot access any of the styles that I have been using, I am clicking on the style button on the top of my toolbar but it only produces old ones that are not relevant and I haven't used. Any ideas? Well even if you don't get this it has been quite a cathartic experience! Regards, Lucy Gush Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52043
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    - caps and number lock how can you tell if you have caps or number lock pressed. my keyboard does not have a light or any indication that i have caps or number lock on. it is a gateway computer Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52038
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    - STOP THIS NONSENSE "How do i stop it deleting the last word?" Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52028
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    - Word XP - indenting behaviour drives me NUTS! If I have two lines of ordinary text one below the other and I wish to indent the lower of the two, WHY THE HELL does Word indent the upper AS WELL? Why can't word just apply the action to the line I want to indent? Rant over! Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52027
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    - Page Numbering Can anyone help? I need to be able to start page numbering on say page six of a document with the page number one. Any ideas? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52023
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    - Auto Text I am having a problem with Auto Text (auto complete suggestion) it doesn't seem to be working, some do but most don't. I'm using Word XP with SP2. I have tried to detect and repair and uninstalled and re-installed Office with no success which has now lead to another problem of not being able to repair the suites or uninstall it. Any ideas? Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52022
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    - i am facing a problem.... my problem is that whenever i tried to change to font of any word/sentence in my document, the same change is applied to the whole document...how can i get rid of it... if any one like to answer.......and tell me about templates...my email is.... uetmet@hotmail.com Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52019
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    - i am facing a problem....... i am a new user of ms office. i am facing a problem.... when i tried to make a particular sentence or even a single word bold,italic or any other change,,,,,,,the change is applied to the whole document.....tell me how can i get rid of this problem....... Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52018
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    - BULLETS How do I list more than one bullet in a line of text Tag: Find & Replace not working Tag: 52009

Can someone suggest why this isn't working?

I have tried using Find & Replace but its not picking up
all the occurances of the word I'm trying to find. I have
checked the More options and nothing is ticked.

I'm trying to find the word Licensor and replace it with
Suncorp but it's skipping random occurances of Licensor.

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Re: Find & Replace not working by Doug

Doug
Wed Oct 22 03:53:46 CDT 2003

Hi Vicki,

If you want to send the document to me, I will take a look and see if I can
determine why that is.

Please post any further questions or followup to the newsgroups for the
benefit of others who may be interested. Unsolicited questions forwarded
directly to me will only be answered on a paid consulting basis.

Hope this helps
Doug Robbins - Word MVP
"Vicki" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:06ff01c39835$22679c10$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> Can someone suggest why this isn't working?
>
> I have tried using Find & Replace but its not picking up
> all the occurances of the word I'm trying to find. I have
> checked the More options and nothing is ticked.
>
> I'm trying to find the word Licensor and replace it with
> Suncorp but it's skipping random occurances of Licensor.

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