Find-and-Replace Doesn't Work

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I'm using Word 2003; I have a very large document and needed to replace both
words and phrases. When I used the find-and-replace feature I got a pop-up
indicating that no instances were found, even though I could clearly see one
of them on the screen at the time I performed the search. I tried "match
case" and "find whole words only", and even tried searching for partial
words/phrases. However, I still had no success. Is there some secret to
using this feature that I haven't discovered? Thanks for any help.
 
Take a look under the find box. Is there anything about formatting?
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A less likely possibility - Are you sure you are entering the string to be
found *exactly* as it exists in the doc? If it includes any Special
Characters (such as em/en spaces, non-breaking hyphens, etc.) that is how it
must be entered into the Find field. Have you tried Copy & Paste (you'll
have to use Ctrl+V to paste into the Find/Replace fields)?
 
Thanks for the suggestion, but none of the words/phrases has any formatting
that differs from the rest of the document, and there's nothing about
formatting in the find box.
 
Thanks, but there are no special characters in the words/phrases, and I
actually highlighted one of the instances of the word/phrase before
performing the search, and still received the same results. I'm truly
baffled by this problem.
 
Look just _under_ the find box.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide




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