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Saturday, July 4, 2009

How to locate specific text ???

If you spend a lot of time scrolling through documents looking for a particular word or phrase, you can save time by using Word's Find feature. Word can search on entire document for a specific set of characters in seconds.

To locate specific text:

  • Move the insertion point to the location where you want the search to begin. To search the entire document, press Ctrl+Home before searching.
  • Select edit>Find(Ctrl+F) to display the Find dialog box.
  • Type the characters you want to locate.
  • Press enter or select Find Next to begin the search.
  • Windows will highlight the next occurrence of the text. The find dialog box remains on the screen after word locate the text.To find the next occurrence of the same text, select find next.
  • If the text is not found, a dialog box appears with the message that the search item was not found. Select ok or press Enter to remove message the insertion point will be in it's original position.

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