Microsoft KB Archive/51563

Find and Change Dialog Boxes Limited to 255 Characters

PSS ID Number: Q51563 Article last modified on 03-07-1997

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= SUMMARY =

When you search for text in versions 3.x, 4.0, and 5.0 of Microsoft Word for the Macintosh, there is a maximum limit of 255 characters for the Find What box.

If more than 255 characters are entered in the Find What box, Word will truncate the text string. You can, however, replace the search text with more than 255 characters:


 * 1) Select the text (greater than 255 characters) that you want to replace the search text with.
 * 2) From the Edit menu, choose Copy. Click anywhere in the document.
 * 3) From the Edit menu (the Search menu for Word 3.x and the Utilities menu for Word 4.0), choose Replace (Change for Word versions 3.x and 4.0). In the Replace With box (the Find What box in Word versions 3.x and 4.0), type the search text.
 * 4) Position the insertion point in the Replace With Box (the Change To box in Word versions 3.x and 4.0). In Word 5.0, under Special, select Clipboard Contents. In Word 3.x and 4.0, type “^c” (without the quotation marks).
 * 5) Choose the Replace All button (the Change All button in Word versions 3.x and 4.0). This replaces all occurrences of the text in the Find What box with the contents of the Clipboard.

= MORE INFORMATION =

In Word versions 4.0 and 5.0, you can copy the text you want to find or replace and paste that text in the appropriate box.

For more information on using the Find and Replace features, see pages 236-248 in the version 5.0 “Microsoft Word User’s Guide.”

For more information on using the Find and Change features, see pages 56-60 in the version 4.0 “Reference to Microsoft Word” or pages 8 and 148 in the version 3.0 “Reference to Microsoft Word.”

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