Find And Replace

[CMOXEY]

I Am Having Trouble Getting The Find And Replace In 2006 To Work. I Just Need To Do A Simple Find And Replace And When I Type "find" Nothing Happens... According To The Help Menu It Is Supposed To Bring Up A Dialog Box, But It Doesn't. Any Help Would Be Greatly Appreciated.

Thanks

Cmoxey

[csiarch]

Try dash find (-find) or underscore find (_find); one or the other should display a dialogue box if the routine is functioning as intended. Note operative word here is : "should"......

[architech]

Make sure the CMDDIA variable is set to 1 :)

[CMOXEY]

Thanks for the quick replies... I have tried both of those options and it still doesn't work in 2006. Any other ideas???

thanks

[CarLB]

FIND is a valid command in 2006 (I don't have it, just have seen the talk about the enhancements to the find command - see below.)

If the FIND command has somehow been redefined, type ".find" (with a leading period) to bypass the redefinition. I fthat doesn't work, a reinstall may be in order...........

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FIND now permits the wildcards * and ?. To find these characters add a reverse quote before. `*AB matches *AB. All characters that need a reverse quote before are:
# (Pound) that Matches any numeric digit
@ (At) that Matches any alphabetic character
. (Period) that Matches any nonalphanumeric character
* (Asterisk) that Matches any string and can be used anywhere in the search string
? (Question mark) that Matches any single character; for example, ?BC matches ABC, 3BC, and so on
~ (Tilde) that Matches anything but the pattern; for example; ~*AB*matches all strings that don't contain AB
[ ] that Matches any one of the characters enclosed; for example, [AB]C matches AC and BC
[~] that Matches any character not enclosed; for example, [~AB]C matches XC but not AC
[-] that Specifies a range for a single character; for example, [A-G]C matches AC, BC, and so on to GC, but not HC
` (Reverse quote) that Reads the next character literally; for example, `~AB matches ~AB