Search in "Word". How to search in Word for word

Many features of the text editor "Word" are often not even familiar to advanced users. Among the valuable and very convenient features of this program is the ability to search through the document. This function will not only significantly speed up the processing of the text, but also make it better.

Call the search box

There are two easiest ways of how to include search in the "Word".

First, you can click the "Find" button in the main menu. This button (command) is on the "Home" tab in the group on the right. This is the easiest to start with, but not the most convenient way to work.

It is better to remember the key combination with which the search function is turned on. This is also useful because this key combination invokes the search window in almost all applications that assume this function.

The search and replace window is activated using the Ctrl and F keys. After pressing these keys at the same time, the window with the tabs "Find", "Replace" and "Go" appears on the screen. The "Find" function allows you to quickly find the right combination of characters in the text of the document, "Replace" - change the combination of signs found on another, and with the help of the "Go" option you can quickly navigate through the elements of the document.

Search for a word in a document

Search in the "Word" by the word is actually in the search for the desired combination of signs. So, if you want to find all the forms of the word "girl", it is advisable not to write the entire word in the search string, but to prescribe only its constant, unchangeable part of the "girls" - then by pressing the "Find Next" key, you can navigate through all cases of using this word In the document.

In the event that the forms of the word significantly differ from each other, you may have to search repeatedly. For example, this applies to the word "guy", because because of the alternation in the root it does not contain the letter "e" in the word forms of the indirect cases between the letters "p" and "n". In this case, the reduction of the word to the first three letters "pairs" will include in the search results a lot of words that are not relevant to the desired. Therefore, it is expedient first to find all cases of using the word "guy" in the nominative singular, and then - all other cases, writing in the search string a combination of "pairs" (it is contained in all oblique singular cases and in all plural cases - "guy "," Guys "," guys ", etc.).

Spelling control

Search in the text in the "Word" can be carried out and for additional control over the typical spelling mistakes that the author knows or who have already been found in the text when checking. For example, many people are not brought to the automaticity of the correct writing "to" and "what would". Knowing about this potential error, you can, without rereading the text and focusing only on this rule, find and check the correctness of writing problem cases by typing in the search line first "to", and then "what would".

Fast formatting of individual characters or words

When you call the search window, not only the search function becomes available, but many related ones. One of them is the selection of the found characters with their subsequent formatting. For example, in the entire text you need to change the font of the brackets. In sets of many fonts, the parentheses have an unsuccessful, unaesthetic design: the brackets can be almost square, like, for example, in the Cambria font, or almost oblique, or vary considerably in size from the remaining characters and spoil the impression of the entire text. Their formatting can be changed in a few clicks.

It is enough to enter the sign of the opening bracket in the search string, then click on the "Find" button, select the "Basic document" option, and the search in the "Word" will select all the signs of the opening brackets. Now they can be formatted. For example, you can change the font to Times New Roman.

Then the same manipulations must be repeated for all closing brackets.

This simultaneous formatting is convenient when you need to select a specific word in bold or italic. True, we must always remember that the "Word" will look for and select exactly the combination of signs.

Fast character replacement

In addition to searching and highlighting with subsequent formatting, you can search in the "Word" with a replacement. If you click on the second tab - "Replace" in the search window, you can see two lines. In one it is necessary to enter that combination of signs which it is necessary to find, and in the second - that on which it is necessary to change found. In this case, both search and replacement, in addition to the combination of signs, can take into account their formatting ("More" - "Format" ...).

For example, in voluminous text, before printing or editing, you need to change all the hyphens on the dash, so that you do not make these changes when editing manually. To do this, enter a space in the search string , hyphen, space , and in the replacement line - a space, dash, space . If you press the "Replace All" button, all hyphens surrounded by spaces will be replaced with a dash surrounded by spaces.

Hyphens in place of dashes often contain texts copied from the browser. On many Internet pages, dashes are replaced not only with hyphens, but with double hyphens. Their manual adjustment would be very tiring. Using the search function with a simultaneous replacement, this problem is solved in several actions: a space, a double hyphen and one more space are entered in the search string, and a space, dash and one more space is added to the replacement line. Pressing the "Replace All" button removes all double hyphens in the text, changing them on the dash.

Search in the "Word" with the selection and with a phased or simultaneous replacement is difficult to overestimate when it is necessary to work with texts of large volumes and eliminate duplicate errors and shortcomings.