Pearson Education, Inc., 221 River Street, Hoboken, New Jersey 07030, (Pearson) presents this site to provide information about products and services that can be purchased through this site. For example, searching for 'eat' would find Find All Word Forms: When selected, the operation finds.In myĮxperience, Word's notion of what sounds alike is a bit odd so I do not Words that sound like the Find What text as well as exact matches. Sounds Like: With this option selected, the operation finds.(Wildcards will be covered in more detail soon.)

Is on, you are able to use wildcards and other special characters in the search.įor instance, when used as a wildcard, '?' matches any singleĬharacter.

Use Wildcards: If this option is off (the default), anyĬharacters entered in the Find What box are treated as themselves-forĮxample, '?' matches '?' as you would expect.

Would not find a match in 'beat' or 'create.' Locating whole words and not parts of words.

Find Whole Words Only: This option limits the search to.

Match only text with the precise case as the Find What text.

Match Case: By default, Word does not distinguish letterĬase in searches cat will match CAT, Cat, and so on.

You can also select Up or Down to limit the search to the part of theĭocument before or after the location of the editing cursor.

Search: The default is All, which operates on the entireĭocument.

Set of options that provide you with more control over the find or replace

Manage Your Money and Investments with Microsoft ExcelĬlicking the More button in either the Find or Replace dialog box displays a

Microsoft word advanced find tips