Using the Find Feature in Word

Billy Walters

If you are like most employees, you often spend time updating or revising your documents. If you would like to save time with this project, try the following tip the next time you are revising a document and need to find specific words or phrases.

Find multiple instances at once in a Word document: You can find the command to count and highlight the occurrences of a particular word.

• Open the dialog box by going to edit on the menu bar and selecting Find

• A “Find What” box will open

• Type the word or words you want to find in the “Find What” textbox

• Select the check box next to “Select All Items Found In”

• Hit Enter and Word will highlight all instances of that word occurring in your document

Can you locate words on a Webpage? Sure, this same procedure can be applied in Internet Explorer!

Billy Walters
Director, Academic Support Services & Distance Education
Columbia State Community College
1665 Hampshire Pike
Columbia, TN 38401
Phone: 931-540-2705
FAX: 931-540-2702
walters@columbiastate.edu