WD97: Edit Find/Replace Doesn't Find Text Formatted as All Caps
Article ID: 196542
Article Last Modified on 1/23/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q196542
SYMPTOMS
You cannot find or replace All Caps text. This problem occurs when you
created the uppercase text by one of the following methods:
- You typed the uppercase text with the CAPS LOCK key on.
-or-
- You used the Change Case command on the Format menu to change the text
to uppercase.
-or-
- You used SHIFT+F3 to change the case of your text.
CAUSE
By design in Microsoft Word, when you search for uppercase text by
selecting the All Caps effect in the Find Font dialog box, only text you
formatted with the All Caps option is found. (To locate the All Caps
option, click Font on the Format menu, click the Font tab, and see All
Caps
under Effects.)
By design, All Caps formatting affects only lowercase characters. It does
not affect uppercase letters, numbers, punctuation, or other
non-alphabetic
characters. All Caps formatting does not change the ASCII value of the
characters. By contrast, when you use the Change Case command, SHIFT+F3,
or
CAPS LOCK, you are changing the case as well as the ASCII value of the
characters. Lowercase characters have different ASCII values than
uppercase
characters.
WORKAROUND
Type the uppercase text you are searching for in the Find What box of the
Find or Replace dialog box, and click to select the Match Case check box.
Do not select All Caps.
Additional query words: uppercase upper case capital letters capitals
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