To search: on Windows, Mac, Linux, Web and Windows 10 - Select the Find In the search box, type the word or. If this sounds appealing, let me know here. Go to the Skype chat that you want to search.
If you find yourself spending hours formatting Microsoft Word documents, I can teach you to reduce that time to less than 5 minutes. The solution is to hold down ALT when you press tab, and it will insert the TAB character instead.
#SEARCH FOR WORDS IN A TEXT ON A MAC HOW TO#
Hope that helps someone, my wife and I found it very confusing.īonus tip - How to find and replace tab characters:Ĭheck out my ‘replace’ dialog above, notice that I’m replacing a tab character? Well if you click the find box and press TAB it won’t enter the tab character, it will take you to the next box (oh no!). Finally it will ask you if you want to do the rest of the document, simply click ‘no’ and you’re done. Undo the text editing, and italicize the selected words instead. Try using keyboard shortcuts to perform the following tasks: Select a few of the words. You’ll notice that there’s no mention that this will only apply to the current selection, but you’ll have to trust me.ĭon’t press find next, or anything like that, click ‘replace all’, and it will do your find and replace in your current selection only (I promise!). Open a word processor like Microsoft Word or TextEdit, and type a few lines of text. Now here’s the unintuitive bit - click on the ‘replace’ tab. Here you’ll see that it says you’re going to search within the ‘current selection’, that’s good! It’ll look like this (I’m going to replace tab characters with a single space): Then select Edit -> Find -> Advanced Find and Replace Here goes.įirstly, select some text you want to ‘find and replace’ within. It’s actually very simple, but Word tells you you’re not doing the right thing. This keeps biting me, so I thought I’d write it down.
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