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You can quickly search for every occurrence of a specific word or phrase.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint

1. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Find.
2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to search for, and then click Find Next.

Notes:

• To cancel a search in progress, press ESC.
• To find text that matches the exact combination of capitalized and lowercase letters that you typed in the Find what box, select the Match case check box.
• To find a specific word, such as news, and you want to ignore the word when it occurs as part of another word, such as newspaper, select the Match whole words only check box.

Microsoft Office Publisher

1. On the Edit menu, click Find.
2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to search for, and then click Find Next.

Notes:

• To cancel a search in progress, press ESC.
• To find a specific word, such as news, and you want to ignore the word when it occurs as part of another word, such as newspaper, select the Match whole words only check box.
• To find text that matches the exact combination of capitalized and lowercase letters that you typed in the Find what box, select the Match case check box.
• The default Search option is All, which means that Publisher first searches the current story and then continues with all other stories in the publication, beginning on page one and ending on the last master page. To begin searching from the current location upward to the beginning of the story, click the arrow next to Search, and then click Up. (This option is only available for the Find feature, not the Replace feature.) To begin searching from the current location downward to the end of the story, click Down.

Find and replace text

You can automatically replace a word or phrase with another - for example, you can replace Acme with Apex.

Note The replacement text uses the same capitalization as the text that it replaces. For example, if you search for AKA and replace it with Also known as, the result is ALSO KNOWN AS.

Microsoft Office PowerPoint

1. On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Replace.
2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to search for.
3. In the Replace with box, type the replacement text.
4. Do one of the following:
   • To find the next occurrence of the text, click Find Next.
   • To replace an occurrence of the text, click Replace. After you click Replace, PowerPoint moves to the next occurrence of the text.
   • To replace all occurrences of the text, click Replace All.

Notes:

• To cancel a search in progress, press ESC.
• To find text that matches the exact combination of capitalized and lowercase letters that you typed in the Find what box, select the Match case check box.
• To find a specific word, such as news, and you want to ignore the word when it occurs as part of another word, such as newspaper, select the Match whole words only check box.

Microsoft Office Publisher

1. On the Edit menu, click Replace.
2. In the Find what box, type the text that you want to search for.
3. In the Replace with box, type the replacement text.
4. Do one of the following:
   • To find the next occurrence of the text, click Find Next.
   • To replace an occurrence of the text, click Replace. After you click Replace, Publisher moves to the next occurrence of the text.
   • To replace all occurrences of the text, click Replace All.

Notes:

• To cancel a search in progress, press ESC.
• To find a specific word, such as news, and you want to ignore the word when it occurs as part of another word, such as newspaper, select the Match whole words only check box.
• To find text that matches the exact combination of capitalized and lowercase letters that you typed in the Find what box, select the Match case check box.
• The default Search option is All, which means that Publisher first searches the current story and then continues with all other stories in the publication, beginning on page one and ending on the last master page. To begin searching from the current location upward to the beginning of the story, click the arrow next to Search, and then click Up. (This option is only available for the Find feature, not the Replace feature.) To begin searching from the current location downward to the end of the story, click Down.