Trouble with simple Find/Replace

[Eric]

I'm editing a long document in Word 2003. I want to replace all occurrences
of "P:" with "Paul:". In the Find box I put "P:" (without the quotes) and in
the Replace box I put "Paul:".

But instead of "Paul:", what I get is "PAUL:". I've checked the formatting
and it is NOT "All caps".

Also, when the "P:" is bold and italics, I get a bold and italic "PAUL:".

(I'm a pretty experienced user of Word, but I don't ever remember seeing
anything like this.)

What's going on?

Thanks.

 

[Bob Buckland ?:-\)]

Hi Eric,

In the Find & Replace dialog, click the [More] button and select the 'match case' option.

In your example both characters, P & : are 'shifted' characters.

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I'm editing a long document in Word 2003. I want to replace all occurrences
of "P:" with "Paul:". In the Find box I put "P:" (without the quotes) and in
the Replace box I put "Paul:".

But instead of "Paul:", what I get is "PAUL:". I've checked the formatting
and it is NOT "All caps".

Also, when the "P:" is bold and italics, I get a bold and italic "PAUL:".

(I'm a pretty experienced user of Word, but I don't ever remember seeing
anything like this.)

What's going on?

Thanks.>>
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Bob Buckland ?
MS Office System Products MVP

*Courtesy is not expensive and can pay big dividends*