From the course: Working with Computers and Devices

Find and replace text

From the course: Working with Computers and Devices

Find and replace text

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- [Instructor] If you're working in a word document that contains a lot of text and you need to replace a word or sentence, you can use the built-in Find and Replace feature. This can be useful, for example, if you realize you've been spelling someone's name wrong throughout the entire document, or some new information has changed some data in your document that you now need to update. Under the Home tab here in Word, you'll locate the editing section. And this is where you'll find the Find and Replace buttons. So for example, I've noticed in this document about the history of the Landon Hotel that the founder Arthur Landon's name is misspelled in a couple of different places. You can see here the name is spelled with an A instead of an O. It would be time consuming to read through the entire document to locate each instance of this mistake. So instead, I'm going to click the replace button. In the Find What field, I'll type the word that I'm looking for, which is the incorrect spelling of Landon and in the Replace field, I'll type the correct spelling of the name. At this point, you have a few options on how to find or replace this text. If you click Find Next, the first instance where it finds of the spelling will be highlighted. If I want to fix this instance, I click Replace. I move this out of the way. You can see that's now been fixed. Word then jumps to the next instance. But since I know that I want to correct all the instances of this misspelling, I can click Replace All, and Word will automatically change every instance in the document. And I get this notification telling me that it made three replacements. I'll click Okay. And I'll Close. So that's the find and replace feature in Word. And again, it can be a big time saver, especially in longer documents containing a lot of text.

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