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11-05-2009, 01:21 AM
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Uses loquacious in sentences
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Find/Replace not working? huh?
Ok - I know what I'm doing with a computer. I'm nearly an expert at Microsoft crap. I can code, encode, and edit like there's no tomorrow.
But all of a sudden, I can't "find" anything within my document!!!! What the heck? I do a ctrl+F and type in a word, and I can clearly see the word on my screen RIGHT THERE. But it won't find it when I click the find button. I tried different words, spellings, anything. It won't FIND anything for me! I moved my cursor up to the top of the document, I changed all the settings, I don't have a clue why it won't 'find' anything and I have like, a billion instances of something that I want to replace! HELP!!!! What am I not thinking of????
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11-05-2009, 01:25 AM
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Uses loquacious in sentences
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This is ridiculous. I found it. After a day and a half of messing with it, I found it RIGHT after I posted. There is an option under "more" that says "No Formatting". I have no idea what formatting I had selected, but after clicking this, it works now.
I could scream.
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11-11-2009, 09:55 PM
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I had the same problem a while back, drove me cuckoo for an hour.
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11-11-2009, 10:34 PM
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Great you fixed it, but It's frustrating reading this and not knowing exactly what Microsoft crap you're talking about...
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11-12-2009, 04:31 AM
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I AM the box
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Seemed pretty obvious to me that it was Word crap
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