{"id":1969,"date":"2022-08-07T10:38:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/?p=196139https:\/\/www.addictivetips.com\/microsoft-office\/find-whole-words-in-ms-word\/"},"modified":"2022-08-07T10:38:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-07T07:38:40","slug":"how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tojikon.net\/en\/1969-how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Find Whole Words In MS Word Instead Of Text Strings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MS Word has a really useful find and replace feature. It lets you search an entire document for a word and replace it with another. This is useful in a lot of cases e.g. if you need to replace names in a document. By default, the \u2018Find\u2019 function looks for a matching sequence of letters. If you look for the word \u2018he\u2019 using the Find feature, it will highlight the word \u2018the\u2019 in its search. This is because the default search looks for a matching text string. It doesn\u2019t know that you\u2019re looking for a particular word. That said, it is possible to find whole words in MS Word instead of text strings.<\/p>\n<p>To find whole words in MS Word, you need to access the advanced options for the Find feature. Open the \u00a0file you want to search. On the Home tab, click the dropdown next to the Find tool and select Advanced Find.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196205\" src=\"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"373\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-3.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-5.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>This will open the Find box. \u00a0Enter the word you want to search for. Next, click the \u2018More\u2019 button to view the advanced options. Check the \u2018Find whole words only\u2019 option. If you want, you can have it match the word down to the letter case. To match the letter case, select the \u2018Match case\u2019 option. Click the Less button to hide these options, and then click \u2018Find Next\u2019 to start searching.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196209\" src=\"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"762\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-1.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-6.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-7.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-8.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MS Word will now search for the word you entered instead of looking for all occurrences of the letters you\u2019ve entered. The screenshot below shows that when searching for the word \u2018he\u2019 with these two options enabled, the \u2018he\u2019 in the word \u2018the\u2019 is not detected.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"post-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-196211\" src=\"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-2.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-9.jpg 300w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-10.jpg 768w, https:\/\/files2.tojikon.net\/files-cloud\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/how-to-find-whole-words-in-ms-word-instead-of-text-strings-11.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Find function has a lot of other\u00a0options to refine the results. The matching case option is just one of the many useful ones it has. There\u2019s also a \u2018wildcards\u2019 options in the advanced Find feature.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019re probably familiar with the asterisk as a wildcard character but MS Word supports quite a few of them. These wildcard characters allow you to find, for example, all text preceding a particular word or phrase in the document. For example, you can use the &lt; and &gt; wildcards to look for all words that start with C and end in E.<\/p>\n<p>Other apps in the MS productivity suite don\u2019t have as advanced a Find feature as MS Word does. In MS Excel, for example, you can only match the case or the entire contents of a cell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MS Word has a really useful find and replace feature. It lets you search an entire document for a word and replace it with another. This is useful in a lot of cases e.g. if you need to replace names in a document. 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