Find and replace characters in South Asian or right-to-left text

Microsoft Office Publisher 2003

The feature or some of the options described in this Help topic are only available if support for a South Asian or right-to-left language 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. Under Find options, select the options you want for matching diacritics or clusters, alef hamzas, or kashidas.
  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're searching for, leave the box empty.
  4. Under Find options, select the options you want for matching diacritics or clusters, alef hamzas, or kashidas.
  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

  • The Match case and Match whole word only options will not work with South Asian text.
  • 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 the following: text in 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.