Find and replace characters in East Asian text

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

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The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only available if support for Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, or Korean is enabled through Microsoft Office Language Settings.

ShowFind text

  1. On the Edit menu, click Find.
  2. In the Find what box, do one of the following:
    • Type the text you want to find. If you have recently searched for a character, word, or phrase and want to search for it again, click the down arrow and choose it from the list.
    • If you want to find a special character, such as a tab or an end-of-paragraph mark, type the appropriate character combination listed in the table below.
      To find Type
      Any character?
      A question mark ^?
      An optional hyphen ^-
      A nonbreaking hyphen (a hyphen in a word that is always hyphenated and can't be separated at the end of the line) ^~
      A line break ^N
      The end of a paragraph ^P
      A nonbreaking space (a space used in place of a normal space when you want to prevent a line break between two words) ^S
      A tab stop ^T
      A white space (a tab character or a space between words) ^W

  3. If you want to find only characters that match the width of what you typed in the Find what box, under Find options, select the Match width check box.
  4. Click Find Next.

ShowFind and replace text

  1. On the Edit menu, click Replace.
  2. In the Find what box, type the text or punctuation you want to find.
  3. In the Replace with box, type the replacement text. To delete the text you are searching for, leave the box empty.
  4. If you want to find only characters that match the width of what you typed in the Find what box, under Find options, select the Match width check box.
  5. Click Find Next to find the next occurrence of the text.
  6. Do one of the following:
    • Click Replace if you want to change it.
    • Click Replace All to replace all occurrences.
    • Click Find Next to continue searching.
  7. Repeat steps 5 and 6 until Publisher displays a message that you have reached the end of the text.

Notes

  • Publisher enables you to use either half-width or full-width characters for alphabet characters, numerals, and Katakana. The space between half-width characters is automatically adjusted to be proportional, while the space between full-width characters is not. For this reason, full-width alphabet characters and numerals might appear too widely spaced and be difficult to read.
  • The default Search option is All, which means that Publisher first searches the current story, and then continues with all other stories in the publication, beginning on page one and ending on the last master page. To begin searching from the current location upwards to the beginning of the story, click the arrow next to Search, and then click Up. (This option is only available for Find, not Replace.) To begin searching from the current location downwards to the end of the story, click Down.
  • Publisher cannot find text in the following: Continued notices in connected text boxes; text in data fields; text with phonetic guides; or horizontal text in vertical text flow.
  • Publisher can find text in only two types of Web form controls: radio buttons and check boxes.
  • Publisher can find text in overflow, but cannot display it.
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