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Find (Ctrl+f) does not search inside equations
Is there a way to search for a text string inside of equations?
A search turned up nothing that works. |
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I'm not aware of any F/R support for finding a text string inside an equation. However, since all equations include a '=' sign, you can search for that. That will at least take you from one equation to the next.
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I did a little testing and learned that it can also find a lot of special characters, such as pi, infinity, the division symbol, and others. So if the equation I am looking for has any of those, I can get there even more quickly. This is an 80-page document with dozens of equations, but being able to step through the equations is so much better than paging through 80 pages. Thank you very much. I even tried saving the document as .txt, .rtf, .pdf, and several others. None of them were abbe to search inside equations. If the Find function can find the "=" sign and other special characters, why the h*ll can't it find a variable name? This is either complete incompetence or arrogance or both. What's the matter with this GD company? Do they have any competent programmers or management anymore? Office has so many bugs and design flaws that have been there for 10-15 years. They just don't seem to give a damn. |
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Paul,
I have a SEQ field set up to number the equations. You don't happen to know of a way to generate a list of all of the equations in a document along with the sequence numbers, do you? Something like a list of figures? Thanks, -J |
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If you'd used Word's Insert Caption tool, for which one of the captioning options is 'Equation', generating a list like the list of figures would be a trivial undertaking - you could actually produce a 'table' of equations using References>Insert Table of Figures, setting the Caption label to 'Equation'. Without that, you'd need a macro to go through all the fields looking for the SEQ field code pertaining to your numbering.
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some text.... a = b + 1 (1) some text.... based on equation (1)... c = pi x r^2 (2) some text.... combining equations (1) & (2)... E = mc^2 (3) some text.... Code:
Table of Equations (1) a = b + 1.....................7 (2) c = pi x r^2.................23 (3) E = mc^2.....................37 |
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Re 2: You could use a Style separator (i.e. select the caption's paragraph break and press Ctrl-Alt-Enter), or simply format the caption's paragraph break as hidden text.
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I'm afraid to try any of your work-arounds, especially if they involve macros or complex styles. Even if I get them working, I can never remember how they work and end up messing them up later and then cannot figure out how to recover. Clearly, the wizards at M$FT know what I need better than I do, so I'll just fall in line. (sigh) Again, thanks for your help. PS: Now I have one more table that has to prompt me to get updated. Is there any way to tell Word to automatically update all tables and lists without prompting me every time? |
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Private Sub Document_Open() Application.ScreenUpdating = False With ActiveDocument .Fields.Update .PrintPreview .ClosePrintPreview .Saved = True End With Application.ScreenUpdating = True End Sub
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