Search and Replace: set user preference?
 

Excel 2003
I use Find and Replace extensively; after the first use when I open the
F&R window the "Replace with" box is highlighted. I'd prefer the "Find
What" box to highlight each time I open the window.

Will Excel allow me to set that preference somewhere?
Thanks!

I don't think you can change this behavior--and I wouldn't think that a
workaround (doing a dummy find that replaces nothing with nothing) would be
worth it.



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Excel 2003
I use Find and Replace extensively; after the first use when I open the
F&R window the "Replace with" box is highlighted. I'd prefer the "Find
What" box to highlight each time I open the window.

Will Excel allow me to set that preference somewhere?
Thanks!

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Dave Peterson

Ugh- looks like it's custom button time. Thanks for your response,
Dave.

If, before you close the Find box, you switch back to the Find tab from the
Replace tab, it will be in view when you reopen.
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Sincerely, Michael Colvin


" wrote:

Ugh- looks like it's custom button time. Thanks for your response,
Dave.

Ugh (I gave you a bum steer about the dummy find/replace.) You could just use a
macro that shows that dialog:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFormulaReplace).Show "", ""
End Sub

(this is better than that dummy find/replace stuff.)



wrote:

Ugh- looks like it's custom button time. Thanks for your response,
Dave.

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Dave Peterson

Hi there. I have the same problem; I use the find and replace key (CTRL+H)
constantly and am very frustrated that in this version of Excel (2003), the
"find" portion is not highlighted when the box opens. I don't really want to
write a macro or tab through to the "find" section before closing. Is there
anyway to load an earlier version of Excel for just this function? I just
switched versions and what ever version I've been using for the last 7 years,
did highlight the "find" section first, so it is very hard to break this
habit (and very annoying that I have remove my hands from the keyboard to use
the mouse or else tab through several times to get to the "find"). Anyway, I
guess I am just venting now.... If anybody has any other suggestions, I sure
would appreciate them. Thanks - Brenda


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Ugh (I gave you a bum steer about the dummy find/replace.) You could just use a
macro that shows that dialog:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFormulaReplace).Show "", ""
End Sub

(this is better than that dummy find/replace stuff.)



wrote:

Ugh- looks like it's custom button time. Thanks for your response,
Dave.

--

Dave Peterson

I don't think there's a way to load parts of one version of excel and parts of
another version of excel.

As far as I can tell, your choices are the macro or learning to live with it.

Brenda wrote:

Hi there. I have the same problem; I use the find and replace key (CTRL+H)
constantly and am very frustrated that in this version of Excel (2003), the
"find" portion is not highlighted when the box opens. I don't really want to
write a macro or tab through to the "find" section before closing. Is there
anyway to load an earlier version of Excel for just this function? I just
switched versions and what ever version I've been using for the last 7 years,
did highlight the "find" section first, so it is very hard to break this
habit (and very annoying that I have remove my hands from the keyboard to use
the mouse or else tab through several times to get to the "find"). Anyway, I
guess I am just venting now.... If anybody has any other suggestions, I sure
would appreciate them. Thanks - Brenda

"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Ugh (I gave you a bum steer about the dummy find/replace.) You could just use a
macro that shows that dialog:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFormulaReplace).Show "", ""
End Sub

(this is better than that dummy find/replace stuff.)



wrote:

Ugh- looks like it's custom button time. Thanks for your response,
Dave.

--

Dave Peterson


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Dave Peterson

Search and Replace: set user preference?
 

This is a real pain.

This is a program bug in Excel 2003..

In every version of Excel that I've used (before 2003), when you bring up
the Replace window, the "Find" will be highlighted.

It is especially frustrating when you do a "Replace All". Next time you
bring it up, why would you want to have the same entry in the "find" field?
YOU JUST REPLACED ALL OCCURANCES OF IT!

Another reason not to upgrade to 2003.

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Microsoft: Any plans to address this bug?

Dave

"Brenda" wrote:

Hi there. I have the same problem; I use the find and replace key (CTRL+H)
constantly and am very frustrated that in this version of Excel (2003), the
"find" portion is not highlighted when the box opens. I don't really want to
write a macro or tab through to the "find" section before closing. Is there
anyway to load an earlier version of Excel for just this function? I just
switched versions and what ever version I've been using for the last 7 years,
did highlight the "find" section first, so it is very hard to break this
habit (and very annoying that I have remove my hands from the keyboard to use
the mouse or else tab through several times to get to the "find"). Anyway, I
guess I am just venting now.... If anybody has any other suggestions, I sure
would appreciate them. Thanks - Brenda


"Dave Peterson" wrote:

Ugh (I gave you a bum steer about the dummy find/replace.) You could just use a
macro that shows that dialog:

Option Explicit
Sub testme()
Application.Dialogs(xlDialogFormulaReplace).Show "", ""
End Sub

(this is better than that dummy find/replace stuff.)



wrote:

Ugh- looks like it's custom button time. Thanks for your response,
Dave.

--

Dave Peterson