"Find All and List" a la Acrobat

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barryhsmith@gmail.com - 04 Oct 2007 06:51 GMT

Looking to find or create a macro which will:
- find all instances of a text string (like Word)
- BUT ADDITIONALLY, list all occurences within their containing
paragraph (or +/-2 lines) in separate window or pane
- And have those listing link back to the location in the Word
document

This is somewhat like the way Acrobat does "find"

[This is for very long, large Word documents.]

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Jay Freedman - 04 Oct 2007 13:11 GMT

Download finder.zip from http://jay-freedman.info/ and unzip it into
Word's Startup folder (by default, %appdata%\Microsoft\Word\Startup).

You can make a toolbar button or keyboard shortcut to the Finder macro
by following the directions in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToHotkey.htm
or
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Customization/AsgnCmdOrMacroToToolbar.htm.

>Looking to find or create a macro which will:
> - find all instances of a text string (like Word)
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>
>[This is for very long, large Word documents.]

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