Why oh why oh why

Allan Ackerson alackerson at msn.com
Thu Feb 22 15:13:55 MST 2007


If you have your field codes revealed, can you do a wild card search on 
anything between the braces?  I'm not at my own computer right now to test 
that, but it used to work.

Cheers!
Al


>From: Nancy Allison <maker at verizon.net>
>To: Allan Ackerson <alackerson at msn.com>, 
>maker at verizon.net,techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
>Subject: Re: RE: Why oh why oh why
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2007 16:01:10 -0600 (CST)
>
>No, darlin', unfortunately. Same problem. Some search results are displayed 
>starting above the top of my text window.
>
>I'm searching for Index fields. A previous writer didn't know how to get 
>Word to use colons as colons in an index entry, and substituted commas 
>instead. Since I am a big sophisticated ol Word user (hee!), I am searching 
>for each field, and substituting \: for each comma that I want to replace.
>
>Maybe it's because the titles are in large type (and so are the index 
>entries), but the index entries that wrap around more than one line start, 
>as I say, off the page. I have to scroll up to see 'em, whether I use the 
>Search box or Ctrl-page down.
>
>--Nancy
>
> >From: Allan Ackerson <alackerson at msn.com>
> >Date: 2007/02/22 Thu PM 03:55:59 CST
> >To: maker at verizon.net, techwr-l at lists.techwr-l.com
> >Subject: RE: Why oh why oh why
>
> >Sure.  After you've done your first search, close the search window.
> >Thereafter, using the Ctr+PgDn combo will find the next instance of your
> >search





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