Find and Replace is a helpful tool in Microsoft Word that searches your document for a specific word or phrase. You can use the tool to replace one word with another, which can be helpful in ...

Using “advanced search” in a Microsoft Word document is the same as going into Find and Replace. This will allow you to narrow down your search results even further.

When one of those documents comes my way, I’d love to be able to search for two spaces and replace them with one. Fortunately, you can create such a macro manually.

Click Use Wildcards in Word. As you can see in Figure C, this Replace task added the Replace With string to every digit, not every number. That means we need a wildcard that matches a single word.