Use Find Replace to search for and replace Indian Language text in your document. You can also find and replace text with specific formatting such as font, font size, colour, bold, italic etc. Note:- To replace data in Unicode apply OT font to the data and then launch the Find-replace.
The description below is for Find Replace in case of TT Fonts only. For UNICODE data MS-WORD itself provides inbuilt functionality.
How to Find Text
Step 1 ▬
Open the document on which you want to find/replace text. Click on Find – Replace in the ISM Menu as shown below.
This utility can also be accessed from the tool bar as shown: Select Find OR Replace Menu as per your choice.
Step 2 ▬
Type the word you want to search for in the Search For field.
Specify the direction of searching the text in the Options group box.
Click on Find. The utility will highlight the first instance of the specified text after the cursor position, depending upon the direction of search specified.
To find subsequent instances of the text, go on clicking Find.
How to Replace Text
Step 1 ▬ Open the Find Replace dialog. Specify the text you want to replace in the Search For field.
Step 2 ▬ Specify the direction of search in Options.
Step 3 ▬ Click on the Replace With button and specify the text you want to replace with in the Replace With field as shown below.
Step 4 ▬ Click on Replace to replace the highlighted instance of the searched text. The utility automatically highlights the next occurrence of the text.
Click on Replace All to replace all occurrences of the text specified in Search For in the document.
Given below are descriptions of some features supported by the Find Replace utility.
Set Font
Click on the Set Font button to find/replace text with specific font attributes.
Clicking on this button opens the standard Windows Fonts dialog box where specific text attributes such as bold, italic, colour, strikethrough etc can be specified.
To remove font attribute settings specified for searching/replacing text, click on the No Formatting button.
Wild Cards
You can fine-tune a search by using wildcards. The Find Replace utility uses ‘?’ as the wildcard.
In the Search For box, type the wildcard and any other text.
Indian Language characters are often composed of more than one glyph. Hence unlike English, a single wild card may not be sufficient to represent a full Indian language character.
For example, a single wild card would be sufficient for representing characters like :
र
While two wild card would be required to represent characters like :
क
To be able to judge how many wild cards an Indian Language character require, place the cursor at the beginning of the character and see how many cursor movements it takes to travel across the character.
For example in the case of ‘ka’, one needs to press the right arrow key twice to travel across the entire character. In other words it takes two cursor movements to travel across the full ‘ka’.
The cursor movement in case of ‘ka’ is given below:
Cursor at the beginning of the character
Cursor position after pressing right arrow key once:
Cursor position after pressing right arrow key second time.
