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Video: Three Microsoft Word Find and Replace tricks for power users

In this TR Dojo episode, I share three Find and Replace tips that will help make you a Word power user. These tips involving using Find and Replace to add text, change text formatting, and search for special characters.

Are advanced editing feature such as these important when picking a word processor?

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Thanks for the tips!

I wish the first one would also work in Excel. Of course it does not.

And M$ probably would state: It's not a bug, it's a feature! :-((

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I wondered why you didn't use the ^& in the replace with field when changing the color of "Techrepublic".

These are great tips. Can't tell you how many times I had to replace spacing for tabs by hand because there may be 2 or 3 or more spaces and not the same amount in each instace. This will help tremendously. Do you have a list of all these find/replace key combinations?

handy in programming editors, and handy in other places too, but not available in Word

It can be "sort-of" accomplished with a table, but that's a kludge.

Wish List.

I thought the video was awesome! I am constantly blown away by how much more I am learning about the capabilities of my pc! Love TR Dojo!!

Thank you for the kind words and feedback!

The video was good and educative indeed.

Using ^& is amazingly helpful when searching using wildcards, but in the example given, it's not that helpful. Otherwise, he might have used it in the second example. (To change the color of TechRepublic, Bill searched for TechRepublic, and replaced with TechRepublic, not ^&.) Most of Bill's tips are really useful, though.