Represents the criteria for a find operation.

Methods

Name Description
ClearAllFuzzyOptions Clears all nonspecific search options associated with Japanese text.
ClearFormatting Removes text and paragraph formatting from the text specified in a find or replace operation.
ClearHitHighlight Removes the highlighting for all text located in a hit highlighting find operation, and returns a Boolean that represents whether the operation was successful.
Execute Runs the specified find operation. Returns True if the find operation is successful. Boolean.
HitHighlight Highlights all found matches and returns a Boolean that represents whether matches were found.
SetAllFuzzyOptions Activates all nonspecific search options associated with Japanese text.

Properties

Name Description
Application Returns an Application object that represents the Microsoft Word application.
CorrectHangulEndings True if Microsoft Word automatically corrects Hangul endings when replacing Hangul text. Read/write Boolean.
Creator Returns a 32-bit integer that indicates the application in which the specified object was created. Read-only Long.
Font Returns or sets a Font object that represents the character formatting of the specified object. Read/write Font.
Format True if formatting is included in the find operation. Read/write Boolean.
Forward True if the find operation searches forward through the document. Read/write Boolean.
Found True if the search produces a match. Read-only Boolean.
Frame Returns a Frame object that represents the frame formatting for the specified style or find-and-replace operation. Read-only.
HanjaPhoneticHangul Returns or sets a Boolean that represents whether to locate phonetic Hangul and hanja characters in a Korean langauge find operation. Read/write.
Highlight True if highlight formatting is included in the find criteria. Read/write Long.
IgnorePunct Returns or sets a Boolean that represents whether a find operation should ignore punctuation in found text. Read/write.
IgnoreSpace Returns or sets a Boolean that represents whether a find operation should ignore extra white space in found text. Read/write.
LanguageID Returns or sets the language for the specified Find object. Read/write WdLanguageID.
LanguageIDFarEast Returns or sets an East Asian language for the specified object. Read/write WdLanguageID.
LanguageIDOther Returns or sets the language for the specified object. Read/write WdLanguageID.
MatchAlefHamza True if find operations match text with matching alef hamzas in an Arabic language document. Read/write Boolean.
MatchAllWordForms True if all forms of the text to find are found by the find operation (for instance, if the text to find is "sit," "sat" and "sitting" are found as well). Read/write Boolean.
MatchByte True if Microsoft Word distinguishes between full-width and half-width letters or characters during a search. Read/write Boolean.
MatchCase True if the find operation is case sensitive. The default is False. Read/write Boolean.
MatchControl True if find operations match text with matching bidirectional control characters in a right-to-left language document. Read/write Boolean.
MatchDiacritics True if find operations match text with matching diacritics in a right-to-left language document. Read/write Boolean.
MatchFuzzy True if Microsoft Word uses the nonspecific search options for Japanese text during a search. Read/write Boolean.
MatchKashida True if find operations match text with matching kashidas in an Arabic language document. Read/write Boolean.
MatchPhrase True ignores all white space and control characters between words. Read/write.
MatchPrefix True to match words beginning with the search string. Read/write.
MatchSoundsLike True if words that sound similar to the text to find are returned by the find operation. Read/write Boolean.
MatchSuffix True to match words ending with the search string. Read/write.
MatchWholeWord True if the find operation locates only entire words and not text that's part of a larger word. Read/write Boolean.
MatchWildcards True if the text to find contains wildcards. Read/write Boolean.
NoProofing True if Microsoft Word finds or replaces text that the spelling and grammar checker ignores. Read/write Long.
ParagraphFormat Returns or sets a ParagraphFormat object that represents the paragraph settings for the specified find operation. Read/write.
Parent Returns an Object that represents the parent object of the specified Find object.
Replacement Returns a Replacement object that contains the criteria for a replace operation.
Style Returns or sets the style for the specified object. Read/write Variant.
Text Returns or sets the text to find. Read/write String.
Wrap Returns or sets what happens if the search begins at a point other than the beginning of the document and the end of the document is reached (or vice versa if Forward is set to False) or if the search text isn't found in the specified selection or range. Read/write WdFindWrap.