Hands on - Word processing - Seek and ye shall find. Save yourself hours of tedious work with Word's search and replace tool.

Publication: Personal Computer World

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The search and replace tool in your word processor can save you hours of labour. We'll be concentrating on Microsoft Word, but other heavyweights such as Star/Open Office and Wordperfect are similarly well-endowed. A couple of safety tips here: always make a backup of a document before doing a large-scale replace and try 'Find Next' and 'Replace' a few times before committing yourself to a 'Replace All'.

When you paste text from an external source there is a return at the end of every line, so Word treats each line as a separate paragraph. If you turn on Paragraph Marks from Tools, Options, View, you'll see them. Usually where there was a new paragraph in the original text, there will be two paragraph marks. Word's Autoformat can give unpredictable results, but there is a...

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