Problem with Find/Replace function

[Joe]

I am preparing a critical edition for publication. The footnotes
section of the edition has words in the Armenian language and the
names of manuscripts(e.g. E9116) that support the words. I decided to
change the manuscript names to M9116, etc., i.e., M instead of E. I
was using the Find/Replace tool in the Edit drop-down menu. It worked
fine at first. Then, the Word demon grabbed the reins and decided to
replace E with M throughout the entire text, about 200 pages. The
only problem is that it didn't distinguish between English E and M and
the Armenian E and M letters. So it changed all the Armenian E
letters to the Armenian M letter as well as doing what I had intended,
changing the manuscript names from E to M. (I hope I'm explaining
this clearly.) So now, I have to go through the 200 pages and
manually change the Armenian M letters back to Armenian E. OR, is
there a way to set up the Find/Replace tool so that it distinguishes
between Armenian and English, so that I can ask it to change only the
Armenian M letters back to Armenian E? I will be very grateful for
any help.

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Joe,

Sounds less like "the Word demon grabbed the reins" and more like you
selected "Change all". ;-)

In the Find and Replace window you can specify the font -- namely the
Armenian font I infer you are using in footnotes but not the body text (you
don't *quite* say this so this inference may not be correct). If you are
using a Mac (you don't mention that -- some PC people stray here -- nor
which version of Word) and you only see three rows of words in the
Find/Replace pane, click the little blue triangle on the left to expand it.
Then go to the Format button and you'll find the fonts in there.

In future, remember that Word has multiple levels of Undo. But I share your
pain... ;-)

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
Canberra, Australia
(My time zone is 5-11 hours different from the Americas and Europe, so my
follow-on responses to those regions can be delayed)
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