Center won't work in FIND

I'm using Word XP. I want to find certain items that are NOT
centered. In the FIND box, I can click "Control + Center" and it
shows "centered". But when I click "Control + Center" again, it just
goes blank. It should show "Not Centered."

Can anybody help?

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This is but one of many reasons that paragraph styles are developed to
handle formatting consistently.
http://addbalance.com/usersguide/styles.htm

With a copy of your document, try formatting your entire document red. Then
use a find and replace to format all paragraphs that are currently centered
with centered text that is colored automatically. Then search for red text.
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Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

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"*((({" wrote in message
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I'm using Word XP. I want to find certain items that are NOT
centered. In the FIND box, I can click "Control + Center" and it
shows "centered". But when I click "Control + Center" again, it just
goes blank. It should show "Not Centered."

Can anybody help?

*(((({

Centering is not an either/or thing. There are four possible alignments, of
which Centered is one; if it's not centered, it's left- or right-aligned or
justified.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"*((({" wrote in message
...
I'm using Word XP. I want to find certain items that are NOT
centered. In the FIND box, I can click "Control + Center" and it
shows "centered". But when I click "Control + Center" again, it just
goes blank. It should show "Not Centered."

Can anybody help?

*(((({

Charles & Suzanne,

Let's try this again:

The FIND box can be used to find formatting -- click CONTROL plus
the format letter (Control + Center, left, right, justify, bold,
italic, etc). And it turns the formatting ON in the FIND box.
Click the control + whatever AGAIN, and the FIND box says "NOT
whatever".
On my computer, I can FIND "Not Justified", "Not Bold", etc. I
cannot find "Not centered".
WHERE is my not centered?

Charles -- FYI, -- I've got a bunch of cases from Westlaw that need to
be formatted better. They arrive with direct formatting and no
styles. I'm setting up some macros to help me by applying styles.
One of them macros involves finding some text that is NOT centered.

PS: I'm getting old, Charles; I'm the oldest law student in my
school. I'm older than some of the Professors. My eyes are old.
Plus, I've got a vision problem that is impairing my ability to work
on-screen and sometimes in print. I am getting around this by
tweaking my settings and getting the biggest frigging monitor that
they make.

My doownload options are Courier or TNR, neither of which I can read
on screen worth a damn; and I can't read the TNR when it's printed out
at all. I need to get these things into a larger font.

Please reconsider my request, re-think using ^c in the FIND box, and
let's see if we can get my ^c to work so that ^c^c gives me "not
centered."

*(((({


In the last exciting episode on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:54:59 -0500,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Centering is not an either/or thing. There are four possible alignments, of
which Centered is one; if it's not centered, it's left- or right-aligned or
justified.

NOT Center would find L, R, J. That's okay by me.

How do you find "Not Justified"? I can't do this any more than I can find
"Not Centered." Yes, I can find Not Bold, Not Italic, etc.; all of these are
either/or, on/off settings, but Centered is not either/or; if it's not
centered, then it has to have some other (specified alignment). You can
search for left-aligned text, then right-aligned, then justified, but you
can't search for "Not Centered."

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"*((({" wrote in message
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Charles & Suzanne,

Let's try this again:

The FIND box can be used to find formatting -- click CONTROL plus
the format letter (Control + Center, left, right, justify, bold,
italic, etc). And it turns the formatting ON in the FIND box.
Click the control + whatever AGAIN, and the FIND box says "NOT
whatever".
On my computer, I can FIND "Not Justified", "Not Bold", etc. I
cannot find "Not centered".
WHERE is my not centered?

Charles -- FYI, -- I've got a bunch of cases from Westlaw that need to
be formatted better. They arrive with direct formatting and no
styles. I'm setting up some macros to help me by applying styles.
One of them macros involves finding some text that is NOT centered.

PS: I'm getting old, Charles; I'm the oldest law student in my
school. I'm older than some of the Professors. My eyes are old.
Plus, I've got a vision problem that is impairing my ability to work
on-screen and sometimes in print. I am getting around this by
tweaking my settings and getting the biggest frigging monitor that
they make.

My doownload options are Courier or TNR, neither of which I can read
on screen worth a damn; and I can't read the TNR when it's printed out
at all. I need to get these things into a larger font.

Please reconsider my request, re-think using ^c in the FIND box, and
let's see if we can get my ^c to work so that ^c^c gives me "not
centered."

*(((({


In the last exciting episode on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:54:59 -0500,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Centering is not an either/or thing. There are four possible alignments,
of
which Centered is one; if it's not centered, it's left- or right-aligned
or
justified.

NOT Center would find L, R, J. That's okay by me.

I think Suzanne has well covered your original question. By the way, neither
of us work for Microsoft; we're just Word users with some experience. As to
fonts, try 13 or 14 pt Garamond. I like it. (I use Century Schoolbook for
briefs, though.) The 10 point is too crowded.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/ which is awesome!

My criminal defense site: http://addbalance.com
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This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.


"*((({" wrote in message
...
Charles & Suzanne,

Let's try this again:

The FIND box can be used to find formatting -- click CONTROL plus
the format letter (Control + Center, left, right, justify, bold,
italic, etc). And it turns the formatting ON in the FIND box.
Click the control + whatever AGAIN, and the FIND box says "NOT
whatever".
On my computer, I can FIND "Not Justified", "Not Bold", etc. I
cannot find "Not centered".
WHERE is my not centered?

Charles -- FYI, -- I've got a bunch of cases from Westlaw that need to
be formatted better. They arrive with direct formatting and no
styles. I'm setting up some macros to help me by applying styles.
One of them macros involves finding some text that is NOT centered.

PS: I'm getting old, Charles; I'm the oldest law student in my
school. I'm older than some of the Professors. My eyes are old.
Plus, I've got a vision problem that is impairing my ability to work
on-screen and sometimes in print. I am getting around this by
tweaking my settings and getting the biggest frigging monitor that
they make.

My doownload options are Courier or TNR, neither of which I can read
on screen worth a damn; and I can't read the TNR when it's printed out
at all. I need to get these things into a larger font.

Please reconsider my request, re-think using ^c in the FIND box, and
let's see if we can get my ^c to work so that ^c^c gives me "not
centered."

*(((({


In the last exciting episode on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 17:54:59 -0500,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

Centering is not an either/or thing. There are four possible alignments,
of
which Centered is one; if it's not centered, it's left- or right-aligned
or
justified.

NOT Center would find L, R, J. That's okay by me.

Thanks, Suzanne. I was sure I had gotten "not centered" before --
maybe in Word 2000?

Thanks for your help.

*(((({


In the last exciting episode on Tue, 13 Jun 2006 19:24:51 -0500,
"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

How do you find "Not Justified"? I can't do this any more than I can find
"Not Centered." Yes, I can find Not Bold, Not Italic, etc.; all of these are
either/or, on/off settings, but Centered is not either/or; if it's not
centered, then it has to have some other (specified alignment). You can
search for left-aligned text, then right-aligned, then justified, but you
can't search for "Not Centered."

Thanks, Charles.

I understand you guys are volunteers. I use Century Schoolbook for
briefs too! I'll give the Garamond a try again; it's a nice looking
font. But I'm needing good on-screen visibility. So far, Verdana and
Palatino seem to work best for me.

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In the last exciting episode on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 00:30:00 -0500,
"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

I think Suzanne has well covered your original question. By the way, neither
of us work for Microsoft; we're just Word users with some experience. As to
fonts, try 13 or 14 pt Garamond. I like it. (I use Century Schoolbook for
briefs, though.) The 10 point is too crowded.