To find a word or phrase, follow these steps:
Click on the Find button on the toolbar or select the Find command from the Edit menu. The "Find" dialog is displayed, in which you can find all instances of a piece of text, for example, the words "blue sky".
In the Find What box, type the text you wish to find.
In the Direction box, choose where you would like to look for the text:
All searches the whole document
Up searches from the cursor to the beginning of the document
Down searches from the cursor to the end of the document
In the Matching box:
Select the Match Case option to find only those occurrences that have the combination of uppercase and lowercase letters specified in the Find What box.
Select the Match Whole Words Only option to find occurrences that are words by themselves, and not part of a larger word e.g. searching for "foot" will not find "football".
In the Style box, you can choose to search for text in a particular font style. Click on the arrow next to Style, and then choose a style from the list e.g. searching for "eucalyptus" in the Normal style will ignore any examples of this word that are, say, in italics.
When everything is set, click on the Find Next button, and Write will find the next occurrence of the word or phrase. Click on Find Next again until there are no more matches. A message will tell then tell you that the search has been unsuccessful.
Once you have exited the "Find" dialog, you can continue to search for the same text string without having to enter the "Find" dialog. Ability remembers the last text string searched for in Find, so to continue your search just select Find Next from the Edit menu.
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