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Subject:RE: Fun with Word From:Paul Hanson <phanson -at- Quintrex -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Thu, 5 Jun 2008 13:23:35 -0500
I like Word except when it does stuff that makes no sense.
I had to replace the phrase "Client Relations Specialist" with "Account Manager." I searched my network drive where I store all my docs directory and found ~80 Word docs with "Client Relations Specialist."
I went through each, replaced "CRS" with "AM" in all docs, recreated the PDFs.
I then did another search for "Client Relations Specialist" in the same directory - I should have 0 hits - before moving on to the next thing on my list.
Windows search found 3 Word docs. Opened each doc. Searched for "Relations" and no hits in any of the three docs.
I saved the docs - thinking the search of the network drive may just have been out-of-date - an opened a new Search window.
Same thing.
I changed the view in Word in each doc to be "Final Showing Markup."
I have comments visible.
I clicked the little paragraph symbol. I clicked to have hidden text display.
Searched again.
Same thing. Three docs show up as having "Client Relations Specialist" inside it.
I like Word except when it does stuff that makes no sense.
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