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Copper Contributor

Sep 18, 2018

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Find and Replace in Word has bugs after latest update to Windows

After the latest update to Windows, Find-and-Replace stopped working correctly for many cases. In particular, if you try to specify font attributes in a replace, they are usually ignored. Also, the R...

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Ronald Smith
Sep 19, 2018
Magic happened. I'm not sure what it was, but everything started working again about 3am this morning. I couldn't sleep and doing some work that included running my app. Imagine my surprise when everything worked.

I've looked and can't see anything that updated.

Oh well, another mystery. But, I'll take it. I was getting desperate.

Ronald Smith

Copper Contributor

Sep 19, 2018

Magic happened. I'm not sure what it was, but everything started working again about 3am this morning. I couldn't sleep and doing some work that included running my app. Imagine my surprise when everything worked.

I've looked and can't see anything that updated.

Oh well, another mystery. But, I'll take it. I was getting desperate.

Keri Schmitt

Copper Contributor

Sep 19, 2018

Same here! I even left Word VBA running and stopped in the middle of a procedure when I left work yesterday (on purpose because I was coding a workaround), and it was still up when I arrived this morning, so it doesn't look like anything even had to be restarted. Like you, I'll take it.