Modifying search settings
WordPerfect lets you modify settings for finding and replacing text. You can specify the direction of a search as well as the area of the document in which to search. For example, you can search only in the body of a document, excluding all other substructures, such as headers, footers, endnotes, and equations. Moreover, you can limit the number of times search text is replaced. You can also specify the position of the cursor during a search.
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Click Edit
 Find and replace. |
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Click Options, and choose one of the following:
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Begin find at the top of document — begins the search at the top of the document, no matter where the cursor is positioned
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Wrap at beg./End of document — searches from the cursor position to the end of the document and then from the beginning of the document to the cursor position
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To control the area of a search | |
To limit the number of text replacements | |
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Click Edit
Find and replace. |
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Click Options
Limit number of changes. |
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In the Limit number of changes dialog box, type a number in the Limit changes to box.
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To specify cursor position during a search | |
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Click Edit
Find and replace. |
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Click Action, and click one of the following options:
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Select match — selects the search text
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Position before — positions the cursor before the search text
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Position after — positions the cursor after the search text
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Extend selection — selects all text from the cursor to the search text
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