Find and replace function replaces with ALL CAPS

[Barry]

I have the equation:
VR00 = (VR10*math.abs(PR003-PR013)+VR01*math.abs(PR002-PR102))

And I want to replace VROO with Master[R,MasterTCNumY+1,MasterTCNumZ+1,6]

When I use the find and replace feature I get
MASTER[R,MASTERTCNUMY+1,MASTERTCNUMZ+1,6] =
(VR10*math.abs(PR003-PR013)+VR01*math.abs(PR002-PR102))

It seems to be changing the replacement text to all caps and I can't seem to
find a way to stop it.

I've opened up a new document and it still does this in that same document.

Is this a known bug or is there something I need to do to stop this?

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[Jay Freedman]

This probably will seem counterintuitive, but it will replace as you want if
you first click the More button and check the box for "Match case". Also,
you'll have to make sure the VR00 in the Find What box is capitalized the
same as in the text, or else nothing will be found.

When you do an ordinary (non-match-case) replacement, it tries to make the
case of the replacement the same as the case of the word it finds. This
makes sense, for example, to replace words that may be lower case in some
places and capitalized in others, such as the beginning of a sentence. It
doesn't work for things like VR00 that aren't "words" in the ordinary sense.

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[Barry]

Thanks Jay, that does work, and I agree that's VERY counterintuitive.

What I would like to suggest to MS about this would be to change "Match
Case" to "Case Sensitive Search" and add a check box for the option "Smart
Case Replacement" to enable/disable that "assuming of capitilization
feature".

I would assume that if someone has the feature to automatically fix the
capitialization of the first word of a line, that feature would highlight
places were they need to correct for that after the replaement.

In any case, thanks again for your help Jay.

This probably will seem counterintuitive, but it will replace as you want if
you first click the More button and check the box for "Match case". Also,
you'll have to make sure the VR00 in the Find What box is capitalized the
same as in the text, or else nothing will be found.

When you do an ordinary (non-match-case) replacement, it tries to make the
case of the replacement the same as the case of the word it finds. This
makes sense, for example, to replace words that may be lower case in some
places and capitalized in others, such as the beginning of a sentence. It
doesn't work for things like VR00 that aren't "words" in the ordinary sense.

--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

I have the equation:
VR00 = (VR10*math.abs(PR003-PR013)+VR01*math.abs(PR002-PR102))

And I want to replace VROO with
Master[R,MasterTCNumY+1,MasterTCNumZ+1,6]

When I use the find and replace feature I get
MASTER[R,MASTERTCNUMY+1,MASTERTCNUMZ+1,6] =
(VR10*math.abs(PR003-PR013)+VR01*math.abs(PR002-PR102))

It seems to be changing the replacement text to all caps and I can't
seem to find a way to stop it.

I've opened up a new document and it still does this in that same
document.

Is this a known bug or is there something I need to do to stop this?