"Do you want to search the remainder of the document?" OF COURSE NOT!

[jw]

Word 2003

When you select a block a text and do a Find/Replace, a dialog with the
above-captioned question appears. Is there a setting to force Word not
to ask this, but to just go back to the Replace dialog so you can close
it directly? Or do I need to replace the built-in Find/Replace dialog
with a VBA routine?

(To add insult to injury, the default answer to the question is "Yes".
Doesn't it stand to reason that if you've deliberately selected a
specific block of text in which to make the change, you most likely do
not want to make it elsewhere, especially the entire document?)

Thanks.

 

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

Often, though, the text is selected because it was found by a previous Find
operation, so the message isn't as gratuitous as you might think.