Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uwm.edu!bionet!agate!dana From: dana@are.berkeley.edu (Dana E. Keil) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps Subject: Re: Word 4.0 'Replace' command. Message-ID: Date: 18 Apr 91 14:38:32 GMT References: <1566@gertie.osc.edu> Sender: root@agate.berkeley.edu (Charlie Root) Distribution: usa Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 24 spencer@cgrg.ohio-state.edu (Stephen N. Spencer) writes: >I had to replace all occurrences of the string "Todd's" to "Mark's" in a >document. Didn't find any of the occurrences of "Todd's" in the document. Sounds like you've probably got "smart quotes" turned on. When you type the apostrophe in the document it's curled instead of straight up and down. When you type the apostrophe in the change dialog box curly quotes doesn't work and it goes searching for the text string with a straight quote instead of a curly one. Try typing shift-option-] in the dialog box, that will give the curly apostrophe in the change box and then it should find what you want. You note that you have Word 4.0a so you're probably not having the other possible problem that was fixed (I'm pretty sure) in version A and afterward. There was a bug (or whatever it is that Bill Gates wants to call it) that caused searches to fail sometimes. The workaround was to click either the Whole Word or Match Upper/Lower Case (can't remember which one) checkbox on and off before starting the search. -- Dana E. Keil Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics University of California, Berkeley dana@are.berkeley.edu