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Old August 17th, 2004, 02:41 PM
Nelson Ferry
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Hello,

I recently discovered an issue with Word XP and I was
wondering if anyone might have a way to fix the problem.
I use a lot of acronyms in my documents and recently
decided to replace those acronyms with the actual words
they represent. However, when I did a find and replace
even though I told it to replace the acronym with the word
it replaced it as all uppercase. For example the acronym
CP when I told word to replace it with Control Point it
replaced it CONTROL POINT in all caps. When I typed in cp
and told word to replace it Word replaced it correctly
with Control Point as typed. Does anyone know how to fix
this issue?

Thanks in advance

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Old August 17th, 2004, 03:57 PM
Steve Franks
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That's how it works. If you specify an upper case search string Word replaces
it with upper case.

If it's a problem try specifying Whole Words in the find/replace dialog,
then it should only change your acronyms.

Steve

"Nelson Ferry" wrote:

Hello,

I recently discovered an issue with Word XP and I was
wondering if anyone might have a way to fix the problem.
I use a lot of acronyms in my documents and recently
decided to replace those acronyms with the actual words
they represent. However, when I did a find and replace
even though I told it to replace the acronym with the word
it replaced it as all uppercase. For example the acronym
CP when I told word to replace it with Control Point it
replaced it CONTROL POINT in all caps. When I typed in cp
and told word to replace it Word replaced it correctly
with Control Point as typed. Does anyone know how to fix
this issue?

Thanks in advance


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Old August 17th, 2004, 04:09 PM
Greg
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Nelson,

I know this sounds counter intuitive, but check
More "match case."
-----Original Message-----
Hello,

I recently discovered an issue with Word XP and I was
wondering if anyone might have a way to fix the problem.
I use a lot of acronyms in my documents and recently
decided to replace those acronyms with the actual words
they represent. However, when I did a find and replace
even though I told it to replace the acronym with the

word
it replaced it as all uppercase. For example the acronym
CP when I told word to replace it with Control Point it
replaced it CONTROL POINT in all caps. When I typed in

cp
and told word to replace it Word replaced it correctly
with Control Point as typed. Does anyone know how to fix
this issue?

Thanks in advance

.

 




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