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Word provides a fast, efficient, and flexible searching feature. Using the Find option from the Edit menu, you can search for just about anything in your document. I find myself using Find quite often in the course of creating a document, but there is one thing about Find that bothers me. I hate having the Find dialog box block part of my document as I am stepping through occurrences of a search string in my document. Clicking on Find Next works great, but that bothersome dialog box is still blocking my view.
To overcome this, I generally do the following when I am searching for something:
This procedure works the same as clicking Find Next repeatedly, and it is just as fast, but it gets rid of the annoying Find dialog box.
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2017-02-16 17:49:14
Lona
thank you very much, i still can't believe there is no "find next" anymore!! disaster!
2014-03-29 15:19:47
Ray
Great trick... cheers...
2012-12-01 12:47:15
Juan
How great tip, wonderful!!
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