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to: CHRISTOPHER GREAVES
from: LAWRENCE KELLIE
date: 1997-03-05 04:32:00
subject: Finding with Normal style

 > Here's another quirk (it's not a bug, honest) to watch out for in
 > Word6:
 > You're Edit.Finding for a string preceded by a paragraph mark.
 > Your search sting is "^pmystring". You are only interested in
 > occurrences of "mystring" that have not yet been identified.
 > (Identification involves, for us, applying a paragraph style - if
 > I've recognised some text, I'll style it to show that I've seen
 > and processed it).
 > You decide that specifying a Format style of "Normal" is
 > appropriate in the Find box, since any occurrence of "mystring"
 > that is still in the Normal style hasn't yet been recognised.
 > The Find fails when "mystring" does appear in Normal style but
 > is preceded by a paragraph that has already been styled
"Fail" is the wrong term.  It is searching for what you requested--a 
Normal-styled paragraph followed by your string.  If the preceding paragraph 
is not styled in Normal, it will not "find" it.
Lawrence
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