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You can search for a specific word or phrase and change the font color, for example, or you can search for specific formatting, such as bold, and change it. In the email message or item you're creating, on the Format Text tab, in the Editing group, choose Replace. Open your Word document. Double-click the Word document that you want to redact in order to open it in Word. Keep in mind that this method is only viable for small documents. If you need to redact large amounts of text, you'll most likely need to save Word documents as image files instead.
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Is there a way to search through all the text files in a folder (and subfolders) for a specific string or bit of text in Mac OS X?
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You can't do this from the spotlight icon in the menu bar. But you can do it with spotlight:
Search: This Mac 'Your Folder Name'
Click on the name of your folder to restrict the search to the folder instead of the whole computer, which is what the default selection 'This Mac' does.
Then click the gear icon, choose show search criteria, and change the kind to text files.
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If you prefer the command line,
You'll need to be (or get) familiar with slhck
grep . Read man grep for more info.
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Very powerful and fast
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Info Graphics Within Microsoft Word
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In the upper right hand corner of your screen: Spotlight
BBEdit supports great search, too, in files and folders.
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c ignores case. See this answer for an overview of the query format and other attributes.
-F searches for fixed strings instead of regex. -l only prints the names of the matching files.
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Open Finder
Navigate to the folder you want to search if you have one.
Enter the term you want to search in the search bar in the upper right hand corner. You may need to stretch out the window to see it.
After you start typing or press enter you'll see a section below the search box to the left that says, More dynamic text stops for the new mac ios.
Search: This Mac 'Your Folder' Shared
If you want to search your whole computer click on 'This Mac'. Otherwise click on the folder name next to it. It may already be selected.
To the right side of those options is a 'Save' button with a plus sign next to it.
Click the plus sign. You'll see two drop down lists. In the first one select 'Kind'. In the second choose 'Any' or 'Text .
Choosing 'Any' may find more matches, while 'Text' will find files Mac OS X determines fall under the category 'Text'.
The number of search results will appear at the footer if the footer is shown.
FYI I've noticed that sometimes it takes time to do a search and sometimes there is no indication Finder is doing anything. I wouldn't wait too long but if you're searching a small folder it should be very quick. If searching your Mac it may take up to a minute or more.
Nota bene: To find an exact phrase enclose it in quotes.
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I'd suggest you look at File Content Finder on the App Store (disclaimer - I'm its developer). It's an affordable app specifically designed for searching file contents without indexing. It supports text files and other major file formats (pdf, doc(x), xls(x), etc).
Its filtering lets you optimise and refine your search by multiple criteria - file type, creation/modification dates, etc.
Angle text in powerpoint. Here is a detailed documentation on how it works.
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For the faster search speed, you can use
ag (the silver searcher)
Installation:
brew install the_silver_searcher
Usage is alike, just replace the
grep to ag
For example,
ag 'my string of text' -R .
More information can view on Github.
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([[])([0-9]@)([]])
Leave the Replace box blank.
Open the full dialog by clicking on the down arrow button that is in the lower left corner of the dialog and in there check the Use Wildcards box. Execute the Find and Replace.
The code reads as follows:
Within the first set of parenthesis it's saying find the left bracket. Since in wildcard searches, brackets have special usage to designate the range to find, we have to repeat the bracket (since we're trying to find it) and place a backslash in front of it to tell Word that we are looking for this special character and not to think that it is designating a range.
Within the second set of parenthesis it is saying find any number 0 - 9 and the @ sign indicates to find as many as there are. So it would find a single number 0 or two numbers 01 or or three numbers 012 or four number such as 9999, etc.
Within the final set of parenthesis we finish the search string with the right bracket we are searching for.
Thus we look for: [ with as many numbers as there are ]
How To Search For A Word Within Microsoft WordMicrosoft Word Docs Online
For help with wildcard search strings see Word MVP Graham Mayor's website.
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