Find and Replace

The Find and Replace dialog box in Word provides you with numerous options for finding text within your document. When you open it from the Edit menu or by using the Ctrl + F or Ctrl + H shortcut keys, you are generally presented with only a portion of your options.

At the very bottom of the Word window is the status bar. This often overlooked feature of the window provides important information about the cursor’s position in the document, in addition to offering functionality...

Do you always find that you know you have typed a word somewhere in your document, but after reading through it you have no idea where it is!

This page was prompted by a Word newsgroup question which led to a private discussion with fellow MVP Greg Maxey......

But if you are staying the course, the first step is to open the vba editor and create a new module in the default document template (normal.dot). In the following illustration, I have created the module in normal.dot and renamed it from the default Module1 to BatchReplace. The name isn't particularly important.

This tutorial pre-supposes that the user will have some basic experience of Word's 'replace' function.