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Old 06-27-2016, 04:31 AM
cheech1981 cheech1981 is offline Windows 7 64bit Office 2010 64bit
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Default certain searches stalling Word

Hi all,

Just curious if anyone else has run into this. Since at least Word 2013 (maybe 2010, can't remember), the program often stalls when I run find-replace searches with certain combinations.

For instance:

Find: ^w (a manual space followed by white space)
Replace all

Word often stalls with a dimmed white screen and I have to restart.

Or right now I'm using:

Find: ^t^t^w
Replace: ^p

Works a couple times then inevitably stalls. (I'm running a macro with it, but probably it would still stall if finding/replacing manually by case)

It seems like it's something with the white space in combination with other characters (or maybe when ^w is used at the end of the search string).

Anyone run into this before?
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