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Robert notes that Word allows him to locate and highlight all the instances of an item that he enters in the Find dialog box. He wonders if, from that point, there is some way he can select all the highlighted instances so that he can copy and paste them into a new document.
Copying individual items that are found is easy?all you need to do is have the source and target documents open, find what you want in the source document, copy it to the Clipboard, and then paste it into the target document. Copying a bunch of found items at once is a bit trickier, however. Here's how to do it:
Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
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2015-04-11 18:37:18
Mike
I'm having the same problem as Robert (comment on 03 Feb 2013). I'm working on Mac 2011 v 14.4.8
When I find all, the select, copy and paste the selection, Word pastes the clipboard contents out of order: "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7" pastes as "7, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 1"
Any help?
Thanks!
2013-02-03 12:32:30
I am having a strange problem with the 'copy all' after highlighting from the FIND dialogue in Word 2007. Here is what I am doing:
--I have dis-contiguous highlighted items in Word document.
--In find box, I click 'Highlighted' under 'format'.
--I click 'Find in'/'Main document' and the number of highlighted items appears in FIND box and items are selected in document
--I close find box, go to document and key 'ctrl-c' to get contents on clipboard.
--I go to new document and paste the clipboard, and everything that was highlighted in the first doc is there... BUT... IN REVERSE ORDER!
I have tried changing search parameters (search UP, DOWN, ALL) and cursor position in doc before I do the highlight search, but nothing changes - the pasted version is still reversed.
Any suggestions???
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