Don’t press find next, or anything like that, click ‘replace all’ Bonus tip - How to find and replace tab characters: Check out my ‘replace’ dialog above, notice that I’m replacing a tab character? If you find yourself spending hours formatting Microsoft Word documents, I can teach you to reduce that time to. Word highlights all instances of the word or phrase in the document. To replace found text: On the magnifying glass pop-up menu, click Replace. For example, type? To find a question mark. You can use parentheses to group the wildcard characters and text and to indicate the order of evaluation. Find the next misspelling or grammatical error. The Check spelling as you type check box must be Note: Changing system function key preferences affects how the function keys work for your Mac Please go to the Microsoft Disability Answer Desk site to find out the contact details for your region. Word 2011 for Mac comes with foreign-language dictionaries such as Czech, French, Russian The default dictionary determines which language’s proofing tools Word uses for spelling and grammar. Hi all, I think I may have found the answer you are looking for with regards to Microsoft Office default. How to find next in microsoft word for mac. Unfortunately, like many different computers, Macintosh systems are easier to set up from scratch the way you want than to tweak and alter after it’s been Choose the “Preferences” option and you’ll see that Microsoft Office 2011 has a Preferences area that looks astonishingly similar to the Mac OS X.

Try opening them in the MS Word Viewer - with luck it might find the endnotes. Incidentally, never save your work in.doc files (or any other format apart from.odt). That is why Writer warns you when you try to save in another format.

One of the things that frustrates me when I try to print my documents in Microsoft Word for Mac 2011 is that, although my printer does double-sided printing, the Microsoft Word dialogue box does not show an option for two-sided printing. So, instead of just sucking it up and accepting I just have to double my pages, here’s a workaround. Click the PDF button in the lower left hand corner of the Microsoft Word Print dialogue box. Choose Open PDF in Preview.

Your document will open up in the Preview app. Go to File > Print. Click the Two-Sided check box and click Print. To get back to Microsoft Word when you’re done printing you can close the Preview document or go to File > Quit Preview to close the application. This will save you a whole lot of paper and quite a bit of frustration!

Nice little walk around to set up word to be able to print duplex directly 1. Go over to an application where the duplex or two-sided checkbox is available. Safari works. Print some web page.

It can even be this one. We just need to get the print dialog to come up.

You won’t actually print. Turn on duplex/two-sided.

Get the rest of your settings just the way you like them. Inside the print dialog, from the “Presets” menu, save your setting as “My Duplex”. Go back to Word and print. When you want “My Duplex”, just select it from the presets menu. Job done Hope this helps 🙂 Credit. My duplex printing from Word (for Mac) suddenly would not work after upgrading to Sierra [I have a printer that does duplex automatically, no need for manual].

I think that once I upgraded the operating system (I hadn’t for some time), Word in Office was able to update to a new version and that is what has caused the problem. Thanks for the pre set tip – it has solved the issue but I am cranky with Microsoft that the bug in their update has not been fixed and I have to do a work around provided for me by a third party!

Again though, thanks for finding a solution and making it available here. I really do appreciate it.