BBA Fundamentals of Computer. Find and Replace
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Danish RazaFIND&REPLACE
NAME: DANISH RAZA
ROLL: BBA/40561/20
SUB: FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER 1 (LAB)
MEANING
• Alternatively referred to as Search and Replace, Find and Replace or Replace
is finding text and replacing it with an alternative text. Many software
programs support the ability to find or search and replace text in a document
from the Edit file menu. The picture below is an example of a Find and
Replace dialog box in Microsoft Word.
STEPS TO PERFORM FIND & REPLACE
• Switch over to the “Home” tab on Word’s Ribbon and then click the
“Replace” button.
• This opens Word’s Find and Replace window. In the “Find What” box, type the
word or phrase you want to locate. If you only want to find text in your document,
you can go ahead and click the “Find Next” button to have Word jump to the next
occurrence of that word. Keep clicking it to browse through all the results.
• If you want to replace the text you find with something else, type the replacement
text into the “Replace With” box. You can enter up to 255 characters in the both the
“Find What” and “Replace With” boxes.
• In this example, let’s say we want to replace the name “Williams” with the name
“Billingsley”, so we’ve typed that text into the respective boxes. Next, we’d click
the “Find Next” button to have Word locate the first instance of the text in the
“Find What” box.
• Word jumps the document to that point and highlights the result in gray, still
keeping the Find and Replace window on top for you. Click the “Replace” button
to replace the currently selected result with whatever text is in the “Replace With”
box.
• To replace all instances at once without stopping and reviewing each one, you can
click the “Replace All” button.
• Be careful when using “Replace All” because it will automatically replace all
instances, including those you might not want to replace. In the example below,
there are three more instances of “Williams,” but we only want to replace the next
two. In this case, we would only click “Replace” for the second and third instance.
• If there is a particular instance where you don’t want to replace the text, click
“Find Next” as many times as needed until you come to an example where you
need to replace text.
• To exit from Find and Replace, click the “Cancel” button
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