This isn’t a “smart” feature it searches for characters only, not word roots. For example, if you put “pre” in the “Find what” box, Word finds “prepare,” “present,” and so on. This option matches words beginning with the search string. For example, if you search for “eat,” Word finds “eat, “ate,” “eaten,” and “eating” but not “eater.” Similarly, if you search for “horse,” Word finds “horse,” “horses,” and “horsing” but not “horseless.” It’s a useful feature, mostly for finding verb forms just don’t expect it to actually find all forms of a word. The feature relies on an underlying database of word forms that is pretty good but has some omissions. For example, if you search for “sit,” Word also finds “sat” and “sitting.” The word “all” is a little misleading, however. This option finds what Microsoft calls “all” forms of the word in the “Find what” box. Basically, this feature works on words that are homophones it doesn’t seem to work on words that sound almost alike, such as “horse” and “whores.” On the other hand, while searching for “horse,” it also finds “horsey” but not “horses,” so who knows? For example, if you search for “cot,” Word also finds “caught.” If you search for “horse,” Word also finds “hoarse.” This could be useful if you’re working on a document in which certain words have been confused or mistyped. This option finds words that sound like the word in the “Find what” box. This option tells Word that you want to search using wildcards. For example, if you search for “sing,” Word finds “sing” but not “Singapore.” If this option is not checked, Word finds both “sing” and “Singapore.” If you enter “Hello,” Word finds “Hello” but not “hello.” If you enter “hello,” Word finds “hello” but not “Hello.” Obviously, this option finds only text that matches the case (capitalized or lowercased) of the text in the “Find what” box. There are several options, all worth exploring: Refining Your Search with More Optionsīut wait-there’s “more”! Microsoft Word provides many ways to refine your search. Every occurrence of “millenium” will be replaced with “millennium.” Simple and quick. (We’ll use the correctly spelled “millennium” for an example.) In the “Replace with” box, enter a word you want to replace with.(We’ll use the misspelled “millenium” for an example.) In the “Find what” box, enter a word you want to search for.This will open the “Find and Replace” dialog. Press CTRL + H (or click Home > Editing > Replace on Word’s ribbon interface).
#WHERE TO FIND ITALICS IN MICROSOFT WORD HOW TO#
You probably already know how to find and replace in Microsoft Word, but if not, here are the basic steps: I would suggest doing it after each paragraph, each page, or every few pages.By Jack Lyon, the Editorium Basic Find and Replace (Of course, you wouldn't do this after typing each sentence. In this approach, you would type your entire sentence, then double-click on the word "sat," and finally press Ctrl+I. Then they will go back and apply the formatting after they are done composing and editing the text. Many (if not most) Word users will type first, without worrying about formatting. Longtime Word users will also recognize that there is another way around this-change how you apply the italic formatting. Several readers noted that they had the same problem but were able to eliminate the problem by simply pressing the second Ctrl+I after typing the space after the word "sat."
#WHERE TO FIND ITALICS IN MICROSOFT WORD FULL#
Word seems to do this if it cannot, for some reason, detect that you have typed at least a full word since turning on the italic formatting. But, when he then hits Ctrl+I at the end of the word (to turn off italic), Word sometimes thinks this is an undo request and un-italicizes the entire word "sat." This doesn't always happen, but does most times, and it really slows down Phil's typing. That's easy he hits Ctrl+I before typing the word "sat" and it duly appears in italic as he types. He might type, "the cat sat on the mat" and want the word "sat" in italic. Phil notes that a peculiar feature of Word is its tendency to sometimes undo font changes.