Four classic applications with the Word search and replacement function

Word search and replacement functions are very powerful. Skilled use of this function in document editing can solve many problems. Next, we will introduce the application of this function through four instances.

Task 1. Set the font format in batches

　　Task requirements:A long Word document containing the word "blog" in multiple places. Now, you must set all the words to underlined red bold characters.

　　Operation Method:Replace all "blogs" in the document with "blogs" in bold, red, and underlined format ".

Step 1: Open the document, select "blog" in one place, and press Ctrl + F to open the "search and replace" dialog box of Word.

Step 2: On the "replace" tab of the "search and replace" dialog box, the "blog" text box is automatically entered in the "search content" text box. In this step, in the "Replace with" box, we also enter "blog ".

Step 3: In this step, we will set the format for the text content entered in the "Replace with" box. Position the cursor in the "Replace with" text box, click "advanced", click "format", and select "font" in the pop-up menu to open the "font" dialog box, in this dialog box, select "bold" for "font", "Red" for "font color", and "underline line" for "fine underline ", click OK to return to the find and replace dialog box.

Step 4: on the "replace" tab of the "search and replace" dialog box, the search and replace options set in the previous step are displayed below the "search content" and "Replace with" text boxes, if "bold", "underline", and "red" (1) are displayed under the "Replace with" text box, the preceding settings are correct, and then click "replace all.

Some friends asked, why not use a format brush? Styles are useful for setting the format of a few texts or paragraphs. However, if you need to set a large number of texts or paragraphs or a long document, use styles to change the format one by one, it is estimated that the document has not been changed, and all the styles have been wiped out.

Task 2. Search with wildcards

　　Task requirements:The document contains multiple titles and requires that the titles (that is, the text included between the titles "" ") be set to both black and red.

　　Operation Method:Use wildcards to search for the title, and then replace all the text found with the text in bold and red (2 ).

Step 1: press Ctrl + F to open the "search and replace" dialog box of Word, click "advanced" to open hidden search and replace options, and select "use wildcard ", enter "*" in the "Search" text box.

Step 2: place the cursor in the "Replace with" text box. Do not enter any content. Click "advanced" and click "format ", in the pop-up menu, select "font" to open the "font" dialog box. In this dialog box, select "" for "font", and select "red" for "font color ", click OK to close the font dialog box.

Step 3: on the "replace" tab, check the search and replace options set above, and click "replace all ".

Tip: Common wildcards

1. Any string --*

For example, "s * d" can be used to find "sad" and "started ".

2. A single character --?

For example, "s? T to search for sat and set ".

3. Start of a word -- <

For example, "<(inter)" searches for "interesting" and "intercept", but not "splintered ".

4. End of a word -->

For example, "(in)>" searches for "in" and "within", but not for "interesting ".

5. Fixed character -- []

For example, "w [io] n" searches for "win" and "won ".

6. Any single character within a specified range -- [-]

For example, "[r-t] ight" (the range must be expressed in ascending order) can be searched for "right" and "sight ".

7. Any single character out of the specified range --[! X-z]

For example, "t [! A-m] ck "searches for" tock "and" tuck ", but does not search for" tack "and" tick ".

8. A duplicate previous character or expression -- {n}

For example, "fe {2} d" looks for "feed", but not "fed ".

9. Less than n previous characters or expressions -- {n ,}

For example, "fe {1,} d" looks for "fed" and "feed ".

10. n to m previous character or expression -- {n, m}

For example, "10 {100}" searches for "10", "1000", and ".

11. More than one previous character or expression --@

For example, "lo @ t" searches for "lot" and "loot ".

Task 3: Quickly select a specific text

　　Task requirements:A long Word document contains the phrase "Search Engine" in multiple places. It is required to highlight all the phrases in the full text.

　　Operation Method:In the "search and replace" dialog box, select the "highlight all projects found in this range" check box.

Step 1: press Ctrl + F to open the "search and replace" dialog box.

Step 2: On the "Search" tab, enter "Search Engine" in the "search content" text box, and select the "highlight all projects found in this range" check box (3 ).

Step 3: select a search range (currently selected range or main document) in the search range drop-down list box ), click "search all" to select and highlight all "Search Engines" in the search range.

 

Task 4. case-insensitive batch conversion

　　Task requirements:When entering this article, in order to avoid switching back and forth between the case and the Chinese Input Method, I enter all the words "Word" in the document into "WORD ", now we need to change all of them back to "Word ".

　　Operation Method:Replace "WORD" with "Word" (for case-sensitivity conversion of a single WORD, you can use Shift + F or use the "Change case" dialog box to directly switch between them ).

Step 1: press Ctrl + F to open the "search and replace" dialog box of Word. On the "replace" tab, enter "WORD" in the "search content" text box ".

Step 2: click "advanced" to open the search and replace options, select the "case sensitive" check box, enter "Word" in the "Replace with" text box, and click "replace all ".