Tips for Using Find and Replace in Word

Tips for Using Find and Replace in Word

Not long ago, I was chatting with one of my critique partners who was doing a run through after finishing here first draft. She said spellcheck caught a dozen or more instances of a strange word: Snester, and she had no idea where it had come from.

She did a little detective work and realized she’d done a global Search and Replace to fix a mistake she’d made, referring to wasp nests as hives. Although she does know better, she’d forgotten a couple of cr...