Word 2010: How to find a specific word in doc?

In the Home menu, click Editing, then click Find. Then type in your word, click the Replace tab, type in your replacement word, then you can go through the doc and replace. I suggest NOT using "Replace All" in most cases:

For instance, if you are replacing "Ann" with "Anne", you can also end up with "anneiversary" and "anneual" etc. If you are replacing "Fitzlewhomp" with "Fred", probably won't matter as much

Kitty Pryde said:

For instance, if you are replacing "Ann" with "Anne", you can also end up with "anneiversary" and "anneual" etc. If you are replacing "Fitzlewhomp" with "Fred", probably won't matter as much

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If you click the More >> button in the Replace window, you can tell Word to Find whole words only, which means it will only find "Ann" and not "anniversary."

There are some other useful options as well, like Match prefix, which means a replace command for "Ann" will find "anniversary" but not "Mariann."

In the More Options, you can do Reading Highlight, which does the highlighting part and will highlight whatever you entered in the find field, if you choose to do it that way.

If you select "Highlight all" it will highlight the word wherever it's found and also count the number of instances it occurred. Makes a good way to count the number of times you used "it" or whatever.