Written by The New Paperclip on February 18, 2007 – 12:05 pm
Do you always find that you know you have typed a word somewhere in your document, but after reading through it you have no idea where it is!
Or do you need to make a change to a word throughout your entire document… but you do not want to do it manually tens or hundreds of times?
Find and Replace in Word 2007 is your next best friend 
To find a word in Word 2007:
- On the “Home” tab of the Ribbon, go to the “Editing” group, and select “Find”… or use the shortcut key CTRL+F
- Type the word you want to find, then press enter
If you want to make a change to a specific word, you want to use the replace functionality. To replace a word/s in Word 2007:
- On the “Home” tab of the Ribbon, go to the “Editing” group, and select “Replace”… or use the shortcut key CTRL+H
- In the “Find what” text box, type the word you want to find
- In the “Replace with” text box, type the word that you want to replace the original word with
- To replace words one at a time, click “Replace”, if you want to replace every occurrence of the word in the document, click “Replace All”
You can do some pretty fancy things with the replace functionality in Word 2007. For example if you clicked the “More” button before replacing all the words, you can make changes to fonts, colours, styles, paragraphs, tabs, languages or even highlight the words that you are looking for!
Just remember, after you use replace all, make sure that you proof read your document again, just to make sure that it reads well.
’till next time,
TNP 
tags: find, formatting, replace, tutorial, word processing
This article ought to be called “Find and Replace in Word,” not “Find and Replace in Word 2007,” because as any user should know, this function is nothing new. (Likewise with your previous article, “How to Show and Hide Codes in 2007.”)
Your subtitle is “It looks like you upgraded to Office 2007.” If you want this to be a valuable resource, then stay on topic and write articles about new Office 2007 features.
I agree Kurt - but this article was more to ensure that people knew where to find it in the Ribbon (obviously different from where they would find the features in Word 2003 or earlier. Not everyone is a power user like yourself.
TNP
OK. I sit corrected, and a tad embarrassed.
What I was focusing on was your completing each ribbon explanation by offering an alternate keyboard shortcut (as in: “…select ‘Find’… or use the shortcut key CTRL+F.”
A better and more positive point to make is that while the new ribbon is a different and (I believe) more intuitive tool than the old menus and toolbars, it is nice to know that Microsoft has maintained the original keyboard shortcuts for use during the learning process.
I am wondering if anyone can help me. I have to do a Group Research paper for a college class (Word Processing) and the part of the report I am doing is on Similaritys and Differances between Microsoft Office 2007 vs. Microsoft Office 2003. I need some ideas of places to look on the internet. I have looked on Microsoft’s Wedsite and that is some help but I need more information.
Thanks Virginia
Have you checked this page “http://technet2.microsoft.com/Office/en-us/library/a9189734-e303-4d7d-93eb-3584c358d1c91033.mspx?mfr=true” ? This plus new UI (Fluent) plus new file formats plus new default font are enough to write solid report IMHO.