Thread: [Solved] Perform a search for alternative words
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Old 03-22-2012, 08:38 PM
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Hi Jung,

When searching for words like 'has' 'have' 'had' 'having', why not just do an ordinary search for any one of the word forms and check Word's 'match all word forms' option?

For the 'has/have/had/having to' search, you could use a wildcard Find, where:
Find = <[Hh]a[sdveing]{1,4}> <to>
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