Find and Replace Text in MS Word

MS-Word is a powerful word processing application, used to create documents, articles, assignments, etc., with the help of features and tools provided by it. It is used to perform many operations and create or edit files and documents. To make this process easier, Microsoft provides its users with a tool called 'Find' to search for a specific word. 

• MS Word is popular in the market because of its wide variety of features, like adding visual effects to your text, turning your text data into graphs, and adding visual impact to your document. 

The following are the steps to find and replace the word in Microsoft Word 2010:

Step 1: Go to the Home tab.

Step 2: Select the Replace option from the Editing category.

Step 3: After clicking on Replace following window will appear

Step 4: Click on the Find Tab 

And enter the word or phrase to be searched and click on Find Next. Select Find Next until you come to the word you want to update.

Step 5: Select Replace. To find and replace the text. To update all instances at once, choose Replace All.

Step 6: To Exit from Find and Replace, click on the Cancel button or the close button available in the upper right corner. 

Example:

Let us consider, there's a need to search the word "Roy" in the Word document.

Step 1: Type the word "Roy" and click on Find Next. It will highlight all the occurrences of "Roy". Click on Replace and enter the text with which the "Roy" is to be replaced. I want to replace it with "Rane" click on Replace All.

Step 2: After clicking on Replace All you will find the following message informing you about the replacements done.

And you can observe in the above image that the word Roy been replaced by Rane.

More Features:

There are some additional features provided to make our search more specific. You can select the options like Find all word forms, Match case, ignore punctuation characters, etc. which will help us to make our search more sophisticated.