Other issues of WordTips have featured ways in which you can search for field codes in general. You may be wondering how you can search for a specific type of field code. You can do it by following these steps in Word 2007:
Figure 1. The Find tab of the Find and Replace dialog box.
As an example, if you wanted to find a DATE field, after following steps 3 and 4, you would be searching for "^d DATE" (without the quote marks, of course).
Simple searching in Word 2010 and later versions is different than in earlier versions of Word. You can, if you desire, follow the above steps (3 through 7) if you make sure that you display the Home tab of the ribbon, click the down-arrow next to the Find tool, and then choose Advanced Find. An alternative, though, is to use the simplified Navigation pane:
Now the Navigation pane should show all matches for your desired field. Click the one that is the one you want, and Word jumps to that location in the document.
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (1430) applies to Microsoft Word 2007, 2010, 2013, and 2016. You can find a version of this tip for the older menu interface of Word here: Searching for a Specific Field.
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2018-08-17 07:42:57
Paul Hanson
Found my answer on https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10714947/how-to-do-search-and-replace-involving-fields-in-microsoft-word
"You don't need a macro. Just toggle all field codes on by using Alt+F9. Then do a find and replace for what you want to change. Once the replacement is complete, use Alt+F9 again to toggle the field codes back off."
2018-08-17 07:36:21
Paul Hanson
How do you replace one field with another? For example, if I wanted to replace the "Subject" field with the "Title" field?
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