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Finding and Replacing Text

You can find every instance of a word or phrase in your document and optionally
change it to something else.

Here are ways to find and replace text:
Choose Edit > Find > Find, click Simple or Advanced to set up find/replace criteria, and

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then click a button to conduct find/replace operations.
Simple: In the Find field, type the text you want to find, and type any text you want to
replace it with in the Replace field.

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Chapter 5

Working with Text

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Chapter 5

Working with Text

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Advanced: In addition to typing Find and Replace text, you can set up additional find/
replace criteria.
Replace All: Automatically conducts the find/replace operation without your review.
Replace: Replaces the current selection with the replacement text.
Replace & Find: Replaces the current selection with the replacement text and
immediately finds the next occurrence of the Find text.
Next or Previous: Finds the next or previous occurrence of the Find text.
Use the other commands on the Edit > Find submenu.

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Search: Displays search results for terms typed in the document search field.
Find Next or Find Previous: Finds the next or previous occurrence of the current
Find text.
Use Selection for Find: Finds the next occurrence of the selected text.
Jump to Selection: Displays the selected text when it’s not currently in view.