Find/Replace Issues - Word 2007 Phil 12/8/2008 11:24:01 AM Hello I have a 71,000 page manuscript. My find/replace function does not finish. I run Word 2007. The document is not image-laden nor is it very large. I have to hit escape, lest it keep going. In Word 2003, I am able to successfully find and replace; it doesn't hang. Is this another "undocumented feature" of Word 2007? Thanks.

Re: Find/Replace Issues - Word 2007 "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 12/8/2008 2:44:47 PM Phil wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hello > > I have a 71,000 page manuscript. My find/replace function does not > finish. I run Word 2007. The document is not image-laden nor is it > very large. I have to hit escape, lest it keep going. > > In Word 2003, I am able to successfully find and replace; it doesn't > hang. > > Is this another "undocumented feature" of Word 2007? > > Thanks. Are you searching/replacing paragraph marks? If so, there's a known bug in Word 2007 (yeah, I guess you could call it an "undocumented feature" <g>). See if the hotfix http://support.microsoft.com/kb/955587/en-us?FR=1 helps. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit.

RE: Find/Replace Issues - Word 2007 Phil 12/8/2008 3:05:01 PM No, it's not for ^p. It's really for anything.

RE: Find/Replace Issues - Word 2007 Phil 12/8/2008 3:25:18 PM That hotfix worked! My index removal trick from Ms. Barnhill also works. Cool. Thanks.

Re: Find/Replace Issues - Word 2007 "Ben M. Schorr - MVP (OneNote)" <bens[ at ]bogusaddress.mvp> 12/8/2008 5:30:52 PM I'm glad you got the problem solved but...did you really mean to say 71,000 PAGES? I mean you right, that's not very large...it's COLLOSSAL! ;-) -- -Ben- Ben M. Schorr, MVP Roland Schorr & Tower http://www.rolandschorr.com http://www.officeforlawyers.com Author - The Lawyer's Guide to Microsoft Outlook 2007: http://tinyurl.com/5m3f5q "Phil" <Phil[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:56FD4648-6EA2-4B8F-A0BD-3E3EEB29A6FD[ at ]microsoft.com: [Quoted Text] > Hello > > I have a 71,000 page manuscript. My find/replace function does not finish. > I run Word 2007. The document is not image-laden nor is it very large. I > have to hit escape, lest it keep going. > > In Word 2003, I am able to successfully find and replace; it doesn't hang. > > Is this another "undocumented feature" of Word 2007? > > Thanks.

RE: Find/Replace Issues - Word 2007 Phil 12/8/2008 5:38:03 PM No, pages. Of course, it's one word/page. :)