Using Find and Replace within a selection (1 Viewer)

[CHSBK]

Hi

I came across an interesting scenario that one of my colleagues had encountered. She had a document in which she needed to remove a number (thousands) of excess spaces in a large table that spanned many pages. The only solution we could come up with was to replace all the spaces with nothing. This, however, meant going back through one of the columns in the table and re-entering those spaces that were actually required. There were only a small number of these to do so nothing too terrible in this instance. It got me thinking though! Is there a way in which the in-build find and replace facility can be used within a selection of text? I have tried selecting some text and using find and replace, but it works its way through the whole document, ignoring the selection. Any solutions would be much appreciated.

 

[ajetrumpet]

if you select text in word, and use the SINGLE replace button, it gives you a choice of weather or not to go on searching after you're done with the selected portion of the document. if you use the replace all button, it notifies you after the section breaks, but replaces the whole document anyway, after the messages pop up.