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Yesterday I had to use MS Word to write a specification document for some
partners.  I was partway through when I realised I'd used 'ID' instead
of 'code' so I did a find/replace.  Obviously, what I meant was
s/ID/code/g when I typed in 'ID' to 'Find what' and 'code' in 'Replace
with' and clicked 'Replace All'.

Word decided I meant "find all instances of 'id' regardless of case, and
replace them with the word 'code' in whatever case the original word was
in", which not only left me with 'CODE' throughout the document but also
gave me such words (which it later underlined in red) as 'codeentify' and
'scodee'.  This is a really dumb default, made by a program that assumes I'm
too stupid to indicate precisely what I want to do.  Nor is there any convient
'Match case' button that would give some indication that the default won't
do the obvious.  To get that button, I have to expand the options by clicking
on 'More'.

Oh, and the first few times I tried to do a replace the program froze and
redrew repeatedly.  I finally had to use the task manager to kill it.

Obviously find and replace is a very complex matter in Word-world.

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  • MS Word Ann Barcomb 15:06 on 15 Oct 2003
    • Re: MS Word Ann Barcomb 15:09 on 15 Oct 2003
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    • peter (Peter da Silva) 18:42 on 15 Oct 2003
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  • MS Word Ann Barcomb 08:42 on 19 Aug 2004
    • Re: MS Word Juerd 09:04 on 19 Aug 2004
    • Philip Newton 09:26 on 19 Aug 2004
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  • MS Word Ann Barcomb 14:34 on 18 May 2005
    • Re: MS Word Bruce Richardson 15:00 on 18 May 2005

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