Find and Replace Text or Numbers Using Wildcards in Microsoft Word. By Avantix Learning Team Updated September 30, 2021. Applies to: Microsoft Word 2013, 2016, 2019 or 365 (Windows) You can use wildcards in Word to find and replace text and numbers.
This is important as this is the only place you can specify to search only in the comments. It will open with Replace as the active tab. Press Ctrl+h to open the Find and Replace window. A company name) used within comments.There are a couple of ways you can do this—one is to save the document as a ZIP file and modify the comments.xml file (see the steps in blog post for something similar: ), but the other way is much simpler and is what I describe here. Tracy contacted me to ask if there was a way to find/replace a word (e.g.
Only the word/phrase in the comments is replaced, not anywhere else in the document.NOTE: This also works for words in headers and footers. A company name), then go ahead and click Replace All. Do the find/replace as you normally would—if you think you might accidentally replace something you shouldn’t, then do Find Next followed by Replace as necessary if you’re confident that you’ll only replace what you need to (e.g. The word/phrase you typed in the Find tab is carried over to the Replace tab, AND the ‘find in comments’ setting is carried over too, even though there’s nothing to tell you that. Now go to the Replace tab.
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