Word 2007 Find and Replace Replacing with all CAPS

[KW]

I am trying to do a find and replace and my Find text is CU-22L and my
replacement text is Series 22. When I do the replace, it forces Series to
display as SERIES (I assume because CU was in caps). There doesn't appear to
be a way to turn this off (I tried to turn off Autocorrect options). In
fact, any time you try to replace a word all in caps with something lowercase
the replacement is always forced to uppercase. Any suggestions? This is a
real pain.

 

[Aeneas]

No idea why Word does what you have described. To replace with Series 22 with
the correct capitalization, do the following:

In the Replace tab of the Find and Replace dialog box:
Enter CU-22L with the correct capitalization in the Find What box
Enter Series 22 with the correct capitalization in the Replace with box
Click More
Click the Match Case check box and replace as before.

 

[KW]

Wow, thanks for the quick reply. That works. Doesn't make sense though
since at least in my mind that's a search only option and shouldn't have any
effect on the replacement.

Thanks though!

 

[Beth Melton]

The logic behind it is Word will match the case of the characters you are
replacing unless you explicitly set the Match Case command.

The default behavior is actually quite handy if what you are replacing
contains mixed case.

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[Graham Mayor]

Other possibilities are to check the wildcards box (though this may in some
circumstances introduce other issues) as wildcard searches and replacement
are case sensitive; or copy the required replacement to the keyboard and
replace with ^c, which is particularly useful if you want to mix fonts or
font characteristics in the replacement string.

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