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With a rotated text box how can the find and replace work. I get back the message that the words are not found I am also trying to replace numbers ie. change and address.
 
I think the problem is in how you are doing the searching. Word doesn't
normally have any problem finding rotated text. What are you searching for,
and what search expression are you using?



ladyinred said:
With a rotated text box how can the find and replace work. I get back the
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message that the words are not found I am also trying to replace numbers ie.
change and address.
 
Word has difficulty dealing with text in text boxes. Find and Replace will
search all stories of a document if you use Replace All but not if you use
Find Next.

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I tested it before posting, to see if rotated text in a text box made any
difference. It didn't. Find Next worked just fine. Word 2000/Windows 2000.
 
Does Find Next also find text in headers/footers, footnotes/endnotes, etc?
My experience in Word 97/2002 was that it did not.

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Hi Suzanne, tested this further and found that the critical issue is the
Search setting. If this is set to 'All', then Find next works as it should,
finding the word in body, header, footer, textbox, and footnote. BUT: if
Search is set to 'Up' or 'Down' then the search is indeed restricted to the
body.
 
Since I use the Browse arrows, they are automatically Find Next/Find
Previous, which means search is limited to up or down. Thanks for the
clarification.

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Note also don't use the Browse arrows. Also, what should happen is that
Word searches the entire main text, then goes back and begins searching the
notes from the beginning. So it may just be a problem with expectations?
Unless you put the cursor in the footnotes and then run the find, in which
case it will go through all the footnotes and then stop, I believe.
 
mn4az,

The only reason I can conjure for why this won't work is if you have a
format option set. Under the "Find what:" combo box in the Find dialog, is
there a format description? If so, click the 'No Formatting' button. Other
than that, the approach you are using should find text in footnotes after
searching the main body, to the best of my knowledge.

Regards,
Chad
 
Yes....what I am saying is that if you run a search for "whenever", and it
appears in both the main text and the notes on pg 5, Word will find whenever
in the main text on pg 5, search pages 6-end, then search the notes for pg.
1-4, then finally find "whenever" in the notes on pg 5. If you are expecting
Word to find whenever on pg5 and then immediately find it in the notes on pg
5, it might seem like it isn't searching the notes.

(Side note: This seems a lot more logical if you are in Normal view, which
must be called Normal b/c it is Normal to Word.)

Re coming from another source--if Word recognizes these footnotes, and
renumbers when you insert a new one, and activates them when you click View
| Footnotes, it should not make a difference.
 
Yeah...just remember, Word doesn't really think in terms of pages...it looks
to us like the note is right next to the text, but to Word, it's in a whole
other section of the document.
 
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