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Find and Replace in MS Word

nailforhammer · 2014-10-26 19:26:55

I have a document in which ageing is spelt "aging" but I need it to be spelt in the UK spelling ageing. However if I find and replace all it will also replace words such as imaging or disparaging to imageing etc. Is there anyway around this rather than just replacing each one individually?

26-10-2014 7:26pm

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nailforhammer

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I have a document in which ageing is spelt "aging" but I need it to be spelt in the UK spelling ageing. However if I find and replace all it will also replace words such as imaging or disparaging to imageing etc. Is there anyway around this rather than just replacing each one individually?

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#2 26-10-2014 7:30pm

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There should be a "match whole word" option...

Which version if word are you using?

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#3 26-10-2014 7:32pm

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You can add spaces in front and after when finding - " aging "

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#4 26-10-2014 7:34pm

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In the find/replace "box", click more & select "Find whole words Only".

This will only select the full word & not partial parts of it elsewhere.

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#5 26-10-2014 7:34pm

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That will fail on " aging." though

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#6 26-10-2014 7:35pm

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brianwalshcork wrote: »

There should be a "match whole word" option...

Which version if word are you using?

Oh yes thank you I see it now. It's irrelevant now but it's Mac Word 2011

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