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Hi
using 2007 I'm using the search function for the word mins (short for minutes) through a 160 page booklet to put a period after it. When I find an entry that needs editing & fix it or paste a correction, then click to find the next entry, the search window keeps returning to the first page and I can't finish making corrections I know there are more errors to fix as a manual search finds them Anyone know how to make the search function continue on after I have made a correction please? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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Try editing the story in Word.
-- JoAnn Paules MVP Microsoft [Publisher] Tech Editor for "Microsoft Publisher 2007 For Dummies" "Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net" wrote in message ... Hi using 2007 I'm using the search function for the word mins (short for minutes) through a 160 page booklet to put a period after it. When I find an entry that needs editing & fix it or paste a correction, then click to find the next entry, the search window keeps returning to the first page and I can't finish making corrections I know there are more errors to fix as a manual search finds them Anyone know how to make the search function continue on after I have made a correction please? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication,
I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net" wrote in message ... Hi using 2007 I'm using the search function for the word mins (short for minutes) through a 160 page booklet to put a period after it. When I find an entry that needs editing & fix it or paste a correction, then click to find the next entry, the search window keeps returning to the first page and I can't finish making corrections I know there are more errors to fix as a manual search finds them Anyone know how to make the search function continue on after I have made a correction please? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:09:02 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote: Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication, I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? Mary I wasn't using find and replace as there were several mins that already had a period after them What I was doing was using find (mins), and when it came across a mins without a period, I then inserted a period. When I then clicked on the 'next' button to find more mins, the search kept returning me to the first page of the booklet with a mins. I did a search and replace to remove all the periods after mins THEN a search and replace to put the periods back after mins again Both exercises went correctly. I had thought of leaving the period off, but some mins are at the end of a sentence. Can Publisher find a word that occurs at a sentence end? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:09:02 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote: Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication, I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? Mary I wasn't using find and replace as there were several mins that already had a period after them What I was doing was using find (mins), and when it came across a mins without a period, I then inserted a period. When I then clicked on the 'next' button to find more mins, the search kept returning me to the first page of the booklet with a mins. I did a search and replace to remove all the periods after mins THEN a search and replace to put the periods back after mins again Both exercises went correctly. I had thought of leaving the period off, but some mins are at the end of a sentence. Can Publisher find a word that occurs at a sentence end? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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Do a find & replace:
find: mins replace with: mins. at each instance, choose (click on button for) either replace or find-next, which will then have you paging through the document (still in the find/replace box) finding each "mins" & replacing only the ones you click "replace" rather than "find next" with "mins." If it's a long document with a lot of "mins" or "mins." it could get tedious. You could try searching for "mins " (mins with a space after) to avoid all the "mins." (mins with a period after). I can't seem to find a way to do this for just one story, though. I tried control-a to highlight the story but it still starts the search on page 1. bj Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net wrote in message news On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:09:02 -0400, "Mary Sauer" wrote: Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication, I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? Mary I wasn't using find and replace as there were several mins that already had a period after them What I was doing was using find (mins), and when it came across a mins without a period, I then inserted a period. When I then clicked on the 'next' button to find more mins, the search kept returning me to the first page of the booklet with a mins. I did a search and replace to remove all the periods after mins THEN a search and replace to put the periods back after mins again Both exercises went correctly. I had thought of leaving the period off, but some mins are at the end of a sentence. Can Publisher find a word that occurs at a sentence end? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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Sure it can. I have a Baptism program I created for an Episcopal service that
has tons of Amens. Each of the Amens has a period after it. Find found them all. Find also found Sacrament. It has amen in the word. If I check Match case Find doesn't find Sacrament. -- Mary Sauer http://msauer.mvps.org/ "Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net" wrote in message news On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:09:02 -0400, "Mary Sauer" wrote: Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication, I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? Mary I wasn't using find and replace as there were several mins that already had a period after them What I was doing was using find (mins), and when it came across a mins without a period, I then inserted a period. When I then clicked on the 'next' button to find more mins, the search kept returning me to the first page of the booklet with a mins. I did a search and replace to remove all the periods after mins THEN a search and replace to put the periods back after mins again Both exercises went correctly. I had thought of leaving the period off, but some mins are at the end of a sentence. Can Publisher find a word that occurs at a sentence end? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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Thank you very much bj
This eventually got my head around the problem Each sentance ends with 2 spaces So find mins+space+space Replace with mins.+space+space did the job. Hip Hip Hip!! I would have been sitting here til Christmas trying to figure that out without your help. -- Regards Martin ©¿©¬ On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:57:50 -0400, "bjm" wrote: Do a find & replace: find: mins replace with: mins. at each instance, choose (click on button for) either replace or find-next, which will then have you paging through the document (still in the find/replace box) finding each "mins" & replacing only the ones you click "replace" rather than "find next" with "mins." If it's a long document with a lot of "mins" or "mins." it could get tedious. You could try searching for "mins " (mins with a space after) to avoid all the "mins." (mins with a period after). I can't seem to find a way to do this for just one story, though. I tried control-a to highlight the story but it still starts the search on page 1. bj Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net wrote in message news On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:09:02 -0400, "Mary Sauer" wrote: Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication, I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? Mary I wasn't using find and replace as there were several mins that already had a period after them What I was doing was using find (mins), and when it came across a mins without a period, I then inserted a period. When I then clicked on the 'next' button to find more mins, the search kept returning me to the first page of the booklet with a mins. I did a search and replace to remove all the periods after mins THEN a search and replace to put the periods back after mins again Both exercises went correctly. I had thought of leaving the period off, but some mins are at the end of a sentence. Can Publisher find a word that occurs at a sentence end? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 14:50:03 -0400, "Mary Sauer"
wrote: Sure it can. I have a Baptism program I created for an Episcopal service that has tons of Amens. Each of the Amens has a period after it. Find found them all. Find also found Sacrament. It has amen in the word. If I check Match case Find doesn't find Sacrament. Thank you again for your help Mary -- Regards Martin ©¿©¬ |
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Thank you very much bj
This eventually got my head around the problem Each sentance ends with 2 spaces So find mins+space+space Replace with mins.+space+space did the job. Hip Hip Hip!! I would have been sitting here til Christmas trying to figure that out without your help. -- Regards Martin ©¿©¬ On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 13:57:50 -0400, "bjm" wrote: Do a find & replace: find: mins replace with: mins. at each instance, choose (click on button for) either replace or find-next, which will then have you paging through the document (still in the find/replace box) finding each "mins" & replacing only the ones you click "replace" rather than "find next" with "mins." If it's a long document with a lot of "mins" or "mins." it could get tedious. You could try searching for "mins " (mins with a space after) to avoid all the "mins." (mins with a period after). I can't seem to find a way to do this for just one story, though. I tried control-a to highlight the story but it still starts the search on page 1. bj Martin ©¿©¬ @nohere.net wrote in message news On Sat, 24 Oct 2009 06:09:02 -0400, "Mary Sauer" wrote: Martin, I cannot duplicate your problem. I have a large multi-page publication, I pasted mins on each page. I used Find and Replace without issue. Are you typing mins in find and mins. in replace? Mary I wasn't using find and replace as there were several mins that already had a period after them What I was doing was using find (mins), and when it came across a mins without a period, I then inserted a period. When I then clicked on the 'next' button to find more mins, the search kept returning me to the first page of the booklet with a mins. I did a search and replace to remove all the periods after mins THEN a search and replace to put the periods back after mins again Both exercises went correctly. I had thought of leaving the period off, but some mins are at the end of a sentence. Can Publisher find a word that occurs at a sentence end? -- Martin ©¿©¬ |
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