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Notes

When editing a document, you may sometimes need to move to a certain passage, but you might not remember exactly where it is.

You can use Search to quickly move to a word, phrase, or code in your text.

1 Press a Search keystroke (see Search Directions below).

2

Or j Select F orward or B ackward from the S earch menu.

Type the characters and/or codes you want to find (commonly referred to as the search string).

3 Press the Search keystroke to begin the search (see Codes and Editing Search

Strings below).

4 After the cursor stops at the first match, press the Search keystroke twice to continue the search.

Or j Select N ext or P revious from the S earch menu.

For example, with the cursor at the beginning of a document in which you mention Mrs. James, you can press

!

Search, type james, then press

!

Search again to move the cursor to the first occurrence of Mrs. James’ name. You can then continue pressing

!

Search twice to move forward through the document to every occurrence of Mrs. James’ name until you find the exact reference you want.

Capitalization

In a search string, lowercase characters match both lowercase and uppercase.

Uppercase characters match only uppercase. For example, bill will find Bill, but

Bill will not find bill.

Codes

When typing a search string (in step 2 above), include codes by pressing the function keys and also selecting options to actually select the feature you want.

For example, to insert an Underline code into a search string, press Underline.

Remember, you must actually select the feature. For example, you could not search for an Underline code [UND] by typing an open bracket ([), then typing

UND and typing a closed bracket (]) as the search string.

To search for a pair of codes, press the function key twice. For example, to search for [UND][und], press Underline twice.

To search for the second code in a set of paired codes, you need to first insert both codes in the pair into the search string and then delete the first code. For example, to search for the Bold Off code [bold], press

!

Search, press Bold twice to insert a pair of bold codes (for example, [BOLD][bold]) into the search string, press Left Arrow to move to the immediate right of the Bold On code [BOLD], press Backspace to delete it, then press

!

Search to begin the search.

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Editing Search Strings

When you type a search string (in step 2 above), you can use the arrow and

Delete keys to move through and edit it just as you would edit text in the normal editing screen.

Search Directions

To search from the cursor forward, press

!

Search. To search from the cursor backward, press

@

Search. While a Search prompt is displayed on the status line, you can change the search direction by pressing Up Arrow or Down Arrow.

Once you have typed a search string, you can press

!

Search,

@

Search, or Escape to perform the search.

Variations

When block is on, you can use Search to expand or contract the block to include the next occurrence of the search string. For example, with block on in a document in which you mention Mrs. James, you can press

!

Search, type james, then press

!

Search again to extend the block to include the next occurrence of

Mrs. James’ name. In the same way, you can also use

@

Search to contract the block back to the last occurrence of Mrs. James’ name.

Normally, Search searches only the main text of a document. A Search that includes any text in headers, footers, footnotes, endnotes, graphics box captions, and text boxes is called an Extended Search. To perform an extended search, press Home before beginning the Search. The word extended is then displayed within the search prompt, (for example, “-> Extended Srch:”).

When you type in a search string, you can use a Ctrl-X to represent any single character. To include a Ctrl-X (^X) in a Search string, press Ctrl-v, Ctrl-x. If you use Ctrl-X be aware that Ctrl-X does not represent function codes and it cannot be the first letter in the search string. For example, the search string s^Xe finds any words which contain “s” and “e” separated by any other single letter

(for example, clu s t e r, s p e ller, s t e llar, s t e p, sy s t e ms).

To include a Soft Return code [SRt] in a search string, press Ctrl-m.

You can include a Soft Page code [SPg] in a search string by pressing Ctrl-v,

Ctrl-k. However, Corel WordPerfect finds only those Soft Page codes which were originally Soft Return codes [SRt]. You cannot search for Soft Page codes which were originally Hard Return codes [HRt-SPg]. Instead, search for the

Hard Return code and it will find the Hard Return code [HRt-SPg] that caused that soft page.

Words

When you are searching for a particular word that is surrounded by spaces, press the Space Bar to include spaces before and after the word. Otherwise, the

Search will include any occurrences of that word even when it is found in other words. For example, insert spaces before and after the word the to find the only when it appears alone, and not in such words as the se, the refore, and o the r.

See Also: Block, Define; Replace

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