Your instructions cause the TOC styles to be modified for the default template (Normal.dotx). Worse, subsequent levels based on TOC 3 will change as well.Ģ. For some obscure reason, the default is “on” - but with it turned on, any direct formatting change made by a user to an instance of that style will automatically change the style definition! So, if a user decided to make a given TOC 3 line italic, all TOC 3 lines will suddenly become italic. In the Modify Style dialog, be sure to turn off the “Automatically update” checkbox. However, there are two additional points I’d make:ġ. The following will replace all occurrences of the word “black” with “brown”.Your method is identical to modifying the TOC x styles with the Modify Style dialog - although I grant that accessing it through the ToC dialog may seem more intuitive. Type in the word you want to replace, and then the one you want to replace it with. This time the Find and Replace dialog opens. On the Home tab, in the Editing group click Replace. Replacing text in your document is just as easy. If there are too many occurrences of the search word to display in the navigation panel, you will see, instead, a count of those occurrences:Īs with many commands in Word, there is a keyboard shortcut for Find, and that Sometimes when you open this panel, a different heading will show but it’s the Results one you need. Notice that there are three headings in the navigation panel: Headings, Pages and Results. If you click on an occurrence in this panel, you will jump to its location in the document. This is to help you better identify the occurrence. Word will show you all occurrences of the word in the document, with each occurrence highlighted, and a small excerpt of the surrounding text in the navigation panel. When the Navigation panel opens on the left, type in the search word. Open your Word document, go to the Home tab and in the Editing group click Find. You can find occurrences of a word or phrase, or even a large chunk of text, in a document using the find function in Word 2016.
Note: If a document contains regions that are protected, you might be unable to drag a section beyond the last protected region. To change the heading's level or add a heading, right-click the heading, and then choose the action you want.
In the Navigation pane, click the Headings.The Navigation pane doesn’t display headings that are in tables, text boxes, or headers or footers. If you’ve applied heading styles to the headings in the body of your document, those headings appear in the Navigation pane. To open the Navigation pane, press Ctrl+F, To go to a page or a heading in a Word document without scrolling, use the Navigation pane.