I want to search all text, tables, and text boxes.

[Patrick Riley]

I have a Word 2002 document that contains text, text boxes, and tables (no
sections, at least not yet). I want to search for particular words or
strings that might occur in all three elements. I have found that when I use
Ctrl+F (or Edit | Find), that the search sometimes overlooks the tables and
text boxes.
Is there one method that can search all three elements?
---Pat Riley

 

[Jay Freedman]

I have a Word 2002 document that contains text, text boxes, and tables (no
sections, at least not yet). I want to search for particular words or
strings that might occur in all three elements. I have found that when I use
Ctrl+F (or Edit | Find), that the search sometimes overlooks the tables and
text boxes.
Is there one method that can search all three elements?
---Pat Riley

It's not so much that there is one method that searches everywhere, but that you
need to repeat the search in each part of the document. The main text is in one
"story" or layer of the document, text boxes are in another, and tables may be
in one story or the other depending on whether they're in-line or floating.

You may be able to adapt the macro in
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/customization/ReplaceAnywhere.htm to do what you want.