Searching For Words In A Text On Mac



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How To Search For Words In A Text Mac

Imagine this situation: you created a long presentation for a particular event or concept and then realize that you used thewrong terminology throughout the presentation, then what would you do? Of course you can manually find the problem word andreplace its each occurrence. But what if you have more than a few slides? Or even then, you might miss out locating the problemword in some occurrences. The best solution is using PowerPoint's Find and Replace option, as explained in thefollowing steps:

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  1. Open the presentation in which you have to find and replace a specific word. Select the Edit |Find | Replace menu option, as shown in Figure 1. Alternatively, just pressthe Shift + Command + H keyboard shortcut.

  2. Figure 1: Select the Edit | Find | Replace menu option
  3. Either way, this summons the Replace dialog box, as shown in Figure 2.

  4. Figure 2: Replace dialog box
  5. Now, type the word you want to find within the Find what text box (highlighted inred within Figure 3) and type the replacement word within theReplace with text box (highlighted in blue within Figure 3).

  6. Figure 3: Replace dialog box
  7. Within the Replace dialog box, you can select the check-boxes explained below to make the searchmore accurate:

    8. Match case

  8. This will match the letter case in the find process. For example, in this caseit will locate spell checking, but not Spell checking orSpell Checking.

    9. Find whole words only

  9. This will find only whole words and not word stems. If you have typed the wordto within the Find what text box, it will locate only to, notinto, or together.
  10. Now, click the Find Next button (highlighted in green withinFigure 3, above) to find the next occurrence of the word.
  11. Once the word which has to be replaced is found, you can do one of the following:

    12. Replace

  12. This button will be greyed out until you find the first instance of the word to bereplaced. Click this button to replace a single instance of the found word. Then, again click the Find Nextbutton to locate the next instance.

    13. Replace All

  13. Click this button to replace all instances of the found word in the open presentation, allat once. Do note that PowerPoint will not show you individual occurrences of the word and will make all changes for you.
  14. Once done, click the Close button.
  15. Save your presentation.
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Enter the search path (ie, the folder from which you want to start searching), as well as the file spec that you want to search and the text you're looking for. Because grep programs don't create an index beforehand, searching can take a good few minutes, so make sure you narrow down the program's workload by specifying a suitable search path.

Searching For Words In A Text On Mac Shortcut

  1. I think there's a keyboard shortcut to search for text on a web page using a Mac, but I forget what it is. Help would be appreciated.
  2. To search a string for a matching word from another string, we use the 'IF', 'ISNUMBER', 'FIND' and 'LEFT' functions in Microsoft Excel 2010. IF: - Checks whether a condition is met and returns one value if True and another value if False.