problem with "find"

[Timothy]

Version: 2004
Operating System: Mac OS X 10.4 (Tiger)
Processor: Power PC

When I use the "find" function to find a word or passage in a word processing document I can't then make the "find" function stop or go away. If I subsequently try to scroll down a page at a time my computer automatically goes to the next instance of the word I was last looking for with "find." This renders the scrolling tool useless. How do you get "find" to stop finding after you've found what you were looking for?

 

[CyberTaz]

Hi Timothy -

Click the circular (Select Browse Object) button located between the two
sets of double-arrows & select Browse by Page to reset it to the default.

Note the other choices available as well - you can switch back & forth from
one mode to another manually. The feature will automatically set to the last
option used, but you can reset it as above when necessary and the dbl-arrow
buttons enable Browsing the doc according to the selected setting.

However, the double arrowheads *aren't* the scroll buttons, they're the
Browse buttons. The scroll buttons are the single arrows directly above them
and aren't affected by the Browse setting.

HTH |:>)
Bob Jones
[MVP] Office:Mac

 

[Clive Huggan]

Hello Timothy,

The best way to "Find" is to key Command-f. If only a small pane appears,
click on the small triangle near the bottom left corner to expand it.

To Replace, key Command-Shift-h -- and Command-r will activate "Replace" and
Command-a "Replace all".

Command-w closes the Find/Replace pane.

It's worth using these keyboard shortcuts because this function is used so
often.

Cheers,

Clive Huggan
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