Find a word

When I try to "find" a word in a document a message appears that reads, "Reader has finished searching the document. No matches were found". This even occurs when I type a simple word such as "a" or "the" when these words are obviously in the document. Please help!

It could be an issue with how it was created or a font.
Open the PDF in Reader and go to File>Document Properties>Description.
What does it show next to PDF producer and PDF version?
Next, in document properties, click on the fonts tab. What do you see there (exactly)?

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How to find a word written with two fonts...?

Hi,
I have a 200+ pages document that contains some words with the first letter in Times regular and the rest in Times italic. Is there any way to find those words in the document?
Thanks

Ooooo, Dave ....
Annabelle, a non scripting solution is the following.
You cannot search for words with multiple fonts. However, since you can search for words in one font, you can exclude 'good' ones.
I will be assuming you have a regular document, with just black text ...
In Search & Replace, GREP, search for "\b\w+\b" with a font style of "Regular" and replace with formatting: text color red. Be sure not to accidentally put anything in the replace text field -- it should be entirely empty. Now all entirely Regular words are red.
Repeat with the font style "Italic". Now all words that are entirely Regular or Italic are in red.
Search for "\b\w+\b" with a text color of Black. This will find all words that are neither entirely in Italic nor entirely in Regular.
In case you never used it before, the GREP expression means "a word boundary -- one or more word characters -- a word boundary". Essentially, it does a 'Find entire word' for any length of words.
Note that if you have words in, say, bold, bold italic, or 46 Light Italic, you will have to mark these as well with the check colour, or else you'll also find them 'bad'.
You might want to create a new swatch for marking, so you can delete it afterwards, replacing with Black again.
... Are you familiar with how to use scripts? It might be a bit easier if I wrote a tiny script, although my method will find all rogue formatted text.

The Firefox find function seems to have become CAPS or non-caps specific, so that typing a word in non-caps will not find matching words with one or more capital letter.

The find function seems to have changed in Firefox. Before, when doing a (CTRL + F) find, the search was not CAPS-specific or non-caps-specific. In other words, if I typed in "firefox" (no caps), it would find the words "firefox", Firefox", or "FIREFOX", regardless of capitalization. Now, however, the find function will only match the exact same capitalization. This totally undermines the usefulness of the function, and is a major hassle. Please fix it.
== This happened ==
A few times a week
== I noticed in in the last two or so weeks.

I am having a similar problem. The following page has the word Dangerfield in several times. My browser will get to Dang and turns pink
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Find/Change words (with GREP) and apply a style...

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Hi Marcos,
If you want the script to create character styles: Bold , Italic, Bold Italic, etc, and replace local formatting with these styles, use scripts in post #3.
But if you want find and change words, or/and replace local formatting with styles defined by you, use FindChangeByList script.
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Then choose settings you need in Find-Change dialog – make sure they work as expected – and run Record Find Change script. A Notepad/TextEdit file will pop up with a line containing the recorded setting. Copy it, open FindChangeList.txt, delete the contents of this file and paste the line you just copied (or add it to the bottom of the file).
Repeat the process for all find-change operations you need.
Finally run FindChangeByList.jsx to make all changes in one go.
However, while using Record Find Change script, you may encounter a problem: it doesn’t record paragraph and character styles placed inside a group. But you can write references to such styles like so:
appliedParagraphStyle:app.activeDocument.paragraphStyleGroups.item("Style Group 1"). paragraphStyles.item("Paragraph Style 1")
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How to find a word with different font format (e.g. italic and regular in one word)

Hi people,
I need to find a word, prefferably using GREP or simple Find/Replace tool.
Sometimes, when I get source text to paste into InDesign, some word's format is messed up. First letter is italic and rest is regular or otherwise (or any other font format). How can I find such words automatically. For example:
Example
would really appreciate any help.
best regards
JMG.

Hi,
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With MFC, I create a set of the 2 regex. So, one click to fix your problem.

How do I find duplicate words in a Numbers spreadsheet?

Hello, I've created my first document on Numbers and am trying to figure out how to find duplicate words. Ideally, a list of words that repeat in the document and how many times. Is this possible? Thank you in advance for the advice

It's easy enough to find and count duplicate entries, especially if they are all in a single column, but if you want to count individual words within multi word entries, the problem is more complicated.
Here's an example for the 'simple' case, using a familiar 155 word passage from English literature.
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B2: =COUNTIF($A$1:A2,A2)
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Search all Database to find a word

Hello all,
I want a pl sql query to find a word like "book" in all oracle database, in all tables and their contents.
Thanks in advance
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PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
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                                                || column_name
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                                                || '%'')'
                                               ).extract ('ROWSET/ROW/*')
                   ) t
--        where table_name in ('EMPLOYEES', 'JOB_HISTORY', 'DEPARTMENTS')
       order by "Table"or
SQL> select table_name,
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       :search_string search_string,
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from cols,
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       columns result varchar2(10) path '.'
where table_name in ('EMP', 'DEPT')
TABLE_NAME           COLUMN_NAME          SEARCH_STRING        RESULT
DEPT                 DNAME                ES                   RESEARCH
DEPT                 DNAME                ES                   SALES
EMP                  ENAME                ES                   JONES
EMP                  ENAME                ES                   JAMES
EMP                  JOB                  ES                   SALESMAN
EMP                  JOB                  ES                   SALESMAN
EMP                  JOB                  ES                   SALESMAN
EMP                  JOB                  ES                   PRESIDENT
EMP                  JOB                  ES                   SALESMAN
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How to finds specific words in each sentence?

import java.io.*;
import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;
public class FindingWordsSpecific {
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public static void main( String args[] ) throws IOException {
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myfile.txt: "Go fishing every Tuesday and every Wednesday"
There is big problem with split statement because it takes each word not more than a word.
I need to have "every Tuesday" not "Tuesday". How to make it correct codes?

I am going to give you a picture of how the output will look.
Here are two sentences from myfile.txt:
Go fishing every Tuesday and every Wednesday
Meet with research students on Thursday
I need to read from myfile.txt and to find specific words in each sentences like this output:
Every Tuesday : Go fishing
Every Wednesday : Go fishing
Thursday : Meet with research students
Ok. make sense? Now I am trying to figure out how to find specific words in each sentence from myfile.txt.
That is why I have difficult with the splits statement and loops. Like this:
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          String result = "";
          String[] s = sentence.split("\\s");
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                    if (s1.equalsIgnoreCase(s2)) {
                         if(s2.matches("every Tuesday")){
                         }else if(s2.matches("every Wednesday")){
                         }else if(s2.matches("Thursday")){
                         }else{
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}So look at the "Thursday" it is working the output because I have split statement to give me only one word not more than
a word in sentence. So there is big problem with more than a word in sentence like this "every Tuesday" and it won't work at all because of split. Could you please help me how to do that? I appreciated for that help. Thanks.

Grep to find any word NOT in quotes

Hi
Can someone help me with this grep
I need to find all words that are NOT in quotation makrs
For example:
Hello and "Good Morning"
I would want to find the words:
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     and
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I tried with lookahead and lookbehind like this:
(?!=")\w+(?!")
but it just selects one character less
If anyone can help I'd really appreciate it
Thanks in advance
Davey

Hey guys!
Thanks a lot for your help!
@Beginner_X
     Your first grep was almost perfect, however, it didnt find the first word of a story (since it didnt follow a space or a return)
     Your second post worked perfectly!! - Thanks a lot
@csm_phil
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@Laubender
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Need help: Cannot find Microsoft Word installed on your system.

I am having issues trying to generate a pdf from a robohelp 7 html project. Whenever I try to generate a pdf I get the error "Cannot find Microsoft Word installed on your system."
I have tried to uninstall both Office (2003) and robohelp, re-installing office first and then robohelp, but it doesn't help. Can anyone shed some light on this issue?

Colum,
Thanks for the reply, but it's Microsoft Office, not Open Office.
I have read many threads here and tried most of the suggestions, up to and including:
Uninstall/Reinstall of Office and RH 7
Adjusting Macro security
comparing registry entries
There are others but I can't think of them all right now. Point being, nothing has worked thus far. I must admit this is fairly frustrating but I haven't given up yet. Any more suggestions are welcome, and I will review the link you gave me just to make sure I cover all my bases.

RH9 - Cannot find Microsoft Word Installed on your system

Having just installed five seats of the TCS 3 upgrade on Laptops with Office 2010 previously installed, three of them are encountering errors when generating Printed Documentation. RH9 throws up a error dialog - "Cannot find Microsoft Word Installed on your system"
What is the fix to have RH9 recognize Office 2010?
Thanks,
W.

No, the other two were using the right-click/Properties approach. When tried, the left click on "Printed Documentation" method did not find Word 2010.
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It would appear to be a bona fide bug, but I can't believe Adobe would let something like this slip...

Cannot find Microsoft Word installed on your system

Hi,
Wonder if anyone can help...
I just tried to generate my printed documentation in RoboHelp
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It is installed, and when I go to Tools > Options >
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First, thanks to Wkugelman for this new initiative. I think
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Nitabeck wrote
quote:
If I manually type in the path to the shortcut, RoboHelp
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This happens to me on XP too, so there must be some other
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do
1) Find WINWORD.EXE and create a shortcut to it on my
desktop. I rename it to WINWORD.EXE
2) In RH. Menu:Tools > Options > Tab:Tool Locations
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3) Select the line Word 2003 and click the Edit... button to
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4) I get a popup called HTML Editor with Word 2003 grayed out
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5) Now it doesn't matter whether I use the path browser icon
and navigate to my new shortcut, or whether I enter the path
manually. When I click OK I get a popup saying the path is invalid
or I return to the HTML Editor popup but the path to Word has not
changed (it remains C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\OFFICE11\WINWORD.EXE ).
Notes: It doesn't matter whether the path is on C:\ where
Program Files (with Office11 And Adobe Robohelp 7 reside), or on
D:\ where my "My Documents" directory is with subdirectory My
Robohelp projects.
I have also played around with the two radio buttons at the
bottom of the Tool Locations tab:
* Auto-select editor and
* Use default editor
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Cannot find Microsoft Word Installed on your system - RH10 - a solution

I started receiving the error "Cannot find Microsoft Word Installed on your system" whenever I tried to generate printed documentation from RoboHelp 10. This occurred after I installed Open Office 3.4.1.
Clicking the "Printed Documentation" option in the SSL pod generated the error. However, right-clicking on the "Printed Documentation" option, selecting "Properties", then clicking "Save and Generate" did work. Go figure.
I am using Word 2007.
All of these suggested solutions to resolve the problem didn't work, unfortunately.
Uninstalling and reinstalling Open Office with the correct option selected for file associations as suggested here:
http://www.grainge.org/pages/authoring/printing/print_issues.htm#other_issues
Tried reinstalling the MPJ2DOC.DLL as suggested here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/robohelp/kb/error-cannot-find-microsoft-word.html
Tried all the suggestions here:
http://forums.adobe.com/message/4173839
Spent 2 hours with Adobe support (they were helpful but could not fix the problem) uninstalling and reinstalling RoboHelp, including reinstalling and registering the dll again.
Finally I fixed the problem by following the simple solution here. I found that the problem was that the Word file associations were corrupt and you simply need to reregister word.
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErr...gisterWord.htm
Here's the solution in case the link does not work:
How to re-register Word when problems crop up opening files
Article contributed by Cindy Meister
If you find that Word files do not open in the desired version of Word when you double-click them in Windows Explorer, or that when opening them from the Desktop or Explorer, a series of messages appear claiming that the file cannot be opened, such as:
“Cannot open C:\My”
“Cannot open "Documents\The”
“Cannot open "Test.doc"”
.. you need to re-register Word. To fix the problem:
Word 97 and above
Click Start | Run (bottom- left corner of your screen).
In the “Open“ box, type:
winword /rand press Enter. Note that there is a space before the forward slash
Word 95
Locate the file winword.reg on your system
Double-click it to re-register Word
Hope this helps anyone else who has struck this problem.
Cheers Mark

I am not surprised that the DLL is crashing your system. If you read the Knowledge Base item for that file it specifically refers to RoboHelp 9. Your first step is to restore the correct DLL for Rh10. I hope you backed it up.
What is your operating system?
Have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling?
Is your Normal.dot file on your local drive or on a network.
Are you generating the printed document to your local drive?
At what point does the generation crash?
See www.grainge.org for RoboHelp and Authoring tips
@petergrainge

How find a word in txt from Java??

Hi everybody...somebody knows how to find an especific word that is located in file txt from java somebody has the code???
Thanks in advance

Here is the code for finding a word in txt file from Java.
import java.io.*;
public class FindTextFromFile
    public static String getString(String fileName)
        StringBuffer fileContent = new StringBuffer(); //appending long String objects repeatedly is very costly
        try
            BufferedReader fileReader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader(fileName));
            String line = "";
            while((line = fileReader.readLine())!=null)
                fileContent.append(line);
                fileContent.append(System.getProperty("line.separator")); //size of line.separator=2
        catch (IOException e)
            e.printStackTrace();
        return fileContent.toString();
    public static int[] getIndicesOf(String fileName, String findWord)
        String fileContent = getString(fileName);
        int[] indices = new int[(int)(fileName.length()/findWord.length())]; //max possible occurances
        int index=0, from=0, incr=0;
        while ((index=fileContent.indexOf(findWord, from))!=-1)
            indices[incr++]=index;
            from=index+findWord.length();
        indices[incr]=-1; //marking the end of search result storing
        return indices;
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        System.out.println();
        System.out.print("Occurences of '"+findWord+"' found: ");
        int[] indices = getIndicesOf(fileName, findWord);
        for (int i=0; indices!=-1 && i<indices.length; i++)
System.out.print(indices[i]+" ");

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Hey everyone,
Just having a little trouble with something.
I'm trying to find a word -- that is, not a substring, an actual word as defined by the english language -- within a string.
For example I don't want "hell" to be found in "hello".. only "hello" to be found.
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This is what I've got thus far:
          for(i = 0; i < input.length(); i++)
               // This statement checks the string "input" for the string "word" starting at offset 0 (as this is what the variable was first defined as)
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What's the easiest way of going about this? I've been fiddling around trying to add extra sections to the if statement, for example
if((input.indexOf(word, offset) >= 0) && (input.charAt(offset +1) == 32))(32 as in the ASCII character for a space, which would do what I wanted it to do)
But I eventually get errors because at some stage or another the charAt is going to be higher than the actual length of the String. Plus, this only looks if there's a space next to the word - a word can be valid if it has a ! next to it for example, or a comma...
Thanks for any help :)
viddy

I think there's a word boundary marker in regex. So it'd be "\\w+hello\\w+" or whatever the marker is, to be used with a Pattern instance.

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