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Find and Replace in Word has bugs after latest update to Windows
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.
A really simple test anyone can do.
1. Open almost any document in Word. Do a find-and-replace (Ctrl-h) from the keyboard.
2. Specify the text to find as "the".
3. Specify the replacement text as "^&" (which means with the same text we just found).
4. Specify that the replacement text should be "red".
5. Click on "Replace all".
It should then run for a long time and tell you that it did a huge number of replacements (in one test 34281, but a simple Find of "the" showed 284 instances), but nothing is actually changed.
6. Click on "Find next" then on "Replace".
Nothing is changed and it does not advance to the next find after clicking on "Replace". Click on "Find next" and it does advance but nothing was changed for the previous instance. You can do this as much as you want and the same things happens over again each time.
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.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.
