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U SING ALPHAW ORD PLUS TO WRITE ON NEO

Finding Text

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3. Do one of the following:

• To search within the current file, press enter.

• To search within all files, press option-enter. (You can’t search all files

if password protection is enabled on your NEO; see page 72.)

• To exit the Find screen without searching, press esc.

4. If the text string is found, the cursor appears at the beginning of the found

text.

If NEO can’t find the text you entered, you will see a brief message to tell

you so.

If you chose to search within all files, the NEO will open each of the files

looking for instances of the word and go to the first one it finds.

5. To find the same text again, press a-G.

Finding and Replacing Text in One File

Follow these steps to search and replace in the file you have open. (You can’t

search and replace in all files at the same time.)

1. Press ctrl-find. You will go to the Find/Replace screen.

2. Type the text you want to find in the Find field, keeping these tips in mind:

• You can search for up to 100 characters, including spaces.

• If you searched for and replaced text before, press clear file in each

field to remove your earlier text entries.

3. Press tab or

L to move to the Replace field.

4. Type the replacement text.

5. Press tab or

L, then press I or J to move between options for the

search (whole word, match case, and replace all). Press the spacebar to

enable or disable each option. When the option is selected, you’ll see *

between the parentheses next to that option.

• Whole word searches for complete words only. If you don’t select this

option, NEO searches for characters that may be part of a longer word

or part of more than one word (for example, searching for hat would

find that, chat, and hatchet).

• Match case finds text that exactly matches the capitalization of the

text you typed in the Find field.

You can use the

clipboard to paste

text into both the Find

and Replace With fields.