Using Find and Replace

• Sometimes documents can be very long and you may need to search that document for a particular word or phrase.  You can use the built-in search feature to do this for you.  If you need to find a particular word or phrase and replace this item with alternative text, then you can use the search and replace feature.
  
  WARNING: Using the search and replace feature sounds great, but you need to be careful.  I always make a backup copy of a document before using this feature as it is very easy to get it horribly wrong.  Many words have within them smaller words.  The word WARNING for instance has the words WAR and WARN within it, and if you replaced the word WAR with something else, then the first three letters of the word WARNING will also be replaced.  There are ways to stop Microsoft Word from doing this, but you must be careful!