Unfair, since I'm paying Microsoft for a service that I partially can't use.

Fill out the Find and Replace form, then click Replace or Replace all. I am so, so, so frustrated with Microsoft over that. Feb 24, How to Replace a Word in Microsoft Word Open your document. Now they refuse to speak to me, telling me I must come to this forum for answers. I've had this issue before and have been able to call Microsoft and a representative led me through the fix. MS Word Find and Replace In Multiple Documents Software 7.0: Replace text in one or many MS Word files. The 'Find' function above the 'Replace' function works fine. MS Word Find and Replace In Multiple Documents Software. When I hit 'Replace,' no error message comes up. It doesn't even come up when I type in Control-H. Control-H, the keyboard shortcut for 'Replace,' does not work. To select an entire paragraph make three rapid clicks anywhere in the paragraph. Also, in my experience, these tips save you time to easily grab a cup of coffee :-) Quick Tips. Use it to locate words, phrases, letters, numbers, and replace them with something else. Grayed out since the Windows 10 Anniversary update), I can merely type under the 'Find' function the word 'George,' and then in the 'Replace' box type in 'Georgia,' hit one key, and the voila!Īs I stated, 'Replace' is grayed out so I can't click on it. These Microsoft Word tips and tricks are important as they increase your productivity in office. All editions of Microsoft Word offer a Find and Replace feature.

If you want to mass-replace your regular hyphens in whole document (in my case, I wanted to print a morse-code quiz :-D) you can use the Replace (Ctrl+H) dialog. Just say in a Word 2016 document, perhaps a long one of 10,000 words, I need to replace every instance where I've typed 'George' with the word 'Georgia.' When I click on the 'Replace' tab (or used to, but I can't now since it's Word has a non-breaking hyphen (Ctrl+Shift+-).If you use it in a word, it does not break the line (in opposite to the regular hyphen).

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