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Damned impressed
I've just decided to change the name of my lead character. I'm 62,000 words in and it was gonna be a lot of drecging through to find every use of the original name.
Control H. 'Find and Replace'. It found 905 uses and changed them all just like that. All bow down to the great god Word.
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Re: Damned impressed
It's great, but not infallible, trust me... 
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No, no it's not. I changed the name from Tom to James and I've just noticed words like sJamesach, botJames. God knows how many more there'll be.
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I honestly don't get on with Microsoft Word. I use NeoOffice, which is free and in my book more user-friendly. Did I mention that it's free too?
It's free, you know.
Free=Good.
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No, no it's not. I changed the name from Tom to James and I've just noticed words like sJamesach, botJames. God knows how many more there'll be.
Exactly what I was driving at 
There's probably a jamesorrow (tomorrow) etc.
When you did it, did you put spaces at each end of the word to be changed, like " Tom " instead of "Tom"? And did you make it character specific, such as capital T?
Anyway, no problem, you being the clever guy that you are, you would have made a backup before you carried out the changes, didn't you? 
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I honestly don't get on with Microsoft Word. I use NeoOffice, which is free and in my book more user-friendly. Did I mention that it's free too?
It's free, you know.
Free=Good.
Sounds good, but it's Mac OS and I'm Windows Vista... never mind
I love MS Word, but that's maybe because I've never used any other word processing software. It is notoriously user-unfriendly, but that's of course relative to what you want to get out of it.
I've looked at the NeoOffice homepage and it does look good.
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openoffice, thanks, downloading it now to see what it's like...
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