Author: Amelia Griggs / Source: How-To Geek
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Have you ever finishing typing a letter, report or presentation only to discover that you misspelled a person’s name or had the wrong company listed multiple times throughout your document? No worries—it’s an easy fix. Using Word’s Find and Replace feature, you can quickly locate and replace text.
Let’s see how it works.Switch over to the “Home” tab on Word’s Ribbon and then click the “Replace” button.
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This opens Word’s Find and Replace window. In the “Find What” box, type the word or phrase you want to locate. If you only want to find text in your document, you can go ahead and click the “Find Next” button to have Word jump to the next occurrence of that word. Keep clicking it to browse through all the results.
If you want to replace the text you find with something else, type the replacement text into the “Replace With” box. You can enter up to 255 characters in the both the “Find What” and “Replace With” boxes, by the way.
In this example, let’s say we want to replace the name “Williams” with the name “Billingsly”, so we’ve typed that text into the…
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