Find won't find, Word 2000

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I was working in 3-4 documents and suddenly the Find command stopped
working. I press Ctrl-f to open the Find and Replace panel. I enter my
text and click Find Next and I get a message that Word has finished
searching the document and item was not found. This is a phrase that
occurs hundres of time sin the document and one that it was finding
minutes before.

The only thing I did was open the "More" panel. I did not change
anything (as far as I know) and close it.

If I reopen the More panel, the search options are all unchecked and
"ALL" is set in the Search: window.

The cursor is at the top of the document.

What did I do and how can I fix it. I tried closing Word and
restarting it. I am about to reboot.

Any more info you need? It's Word 2000.

Thanks
 
I was working in 3-4 documents and suddenly the Find command stopped
working. I press Ctrl-f to open the Find and Replace panel. I enter my
text and click Find Next and I get a message that Word has finished
searching the document and item was not found. This is a phrase that
occurs hundres of time sin the document and one that it was finding
minutes before.

The only thing I did was open the "More" panel. I did not change
anything (as far as I know) and close it.

If I reopen the More panel, the search options are all unchecked and
"ALL" is set in the Search: window.

The cursor is at the top of the document.

What did I do and how can I fix it. I tried closing Word and
restarting it. I am about to reboot.

Any more info you need? It's Word 2000.

Thanks
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OK, I rebooted. When it came back up, Word was operating normally.
Find was working.

I resumed the work I was doing which was searching for the phrase
"father". I wanted to turn most of the occurrances to red. I have a
macro that I wrote that cycles selected text from black (automatic) to
red to blue and back to black.

After 2-3 searches and color changes using my macro, Find stopped
working as before saying it couldn't find the text. I closed Word and
restarted it and Find worked again and I was able to complete the
task. as far as I can tell, I was doing exactly the same thing.


The macro is as follows:

Sub MyFontColorCycle()
Dim svColor As String

'Check the current fill setting and set it to the next one in the ring
If Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic Then 'If automatic, set
it to red
Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed: svColor = "Red"
ElseIf Selection.Font.Color = wdColorRed Then 'If red, set it to
blue
Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue: svColor = "Blue"
Else 'If blue (or
anything else), set it to automatic (black)
Selection.Font.Color = wdColorAutomatic: svColor = "Automatic
(black)"
End If

'Display results in status bar
StatusBar = "Color is now " & svColor

End Sub
 
Hi there

I might be missing the point completely, but if you want to turn some of the
occurances of 'father' to red you can use find and replace:
1. Ctrl+h to open replace dialogue box
2. Type father in find what
3. Type ^& in the replce with box (^& puts in the text from the find what box)
4. With the cursor still in the replace with box, select
More...->Format->font and change font colour to red
5. Perform the find and replace as normal.

Hope that helps and sorry if I've misunderstood :-)

Lucy
--
MOS Master Instructor
South Australia

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Hi there

I might be missing the point completely, but if you want to turn some of the
occurances of 'father' to red you can use find and replace:
1. Ctrl+h to open replace dialogue box
2. Type father in find what
3. Type ^& in the replce with box (^& puts in the text from the find what box)
4. With the cursor still in the replace with box, select
More...->Format->font and change font colour to red
5. Perform the find and replace as normal.

Hope that helps and sorry if I've misunderstood :-)

Lucy
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That's a very helpful tip and it would probably have prevented the
problem, but I would still like to know what caused Find to stop
working.

Thanks
 
One of the commonest reasons is that you have some kind of formatting
applied to the "Find what" box.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

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One of the commonest reasons is that you have some kind of formatting
applied to the "Find what" box.
Click to expand...

That was one of the first things that I thought of, especially because
of my macro, which does do some formatting.

But if I had any kind of formatting at all, wouldn't it always show up
after the "Format:" field under the "Find what:" field?
 
Yes, it would, and, given your macro, I figured you would have thought of
that, but it was a long shot!

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA

Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.
 
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