To easily navigate to each occurrence of the word or phrase, forwards in the document, click the down arrow (Next Search Result) button to the right of the three tabs below the Search edit box. If you click Cancel, the search is not cleared. NOTE: When you click OK to close the Options dialog box, the last search you did is cleared and the cursor is moved to the beginning of the document. You can find a list of available wildcard characters on Microsoft’s site here. For instance, if you enter “c?i,” the results would display all words or portions of words that contain “c” as the first letter and “i” as the third letter. You can also use wildcards in your search by selecting the Use wildcards option. You can prevent this by selecting Find whole words only. For example, if you search for “begin,” occurrences of the word “beginning” would also display in the results. When you search for text, all occurrences of it are found whether it is a word by itself or part of another word. For example, if you typed “Mode,” then “mode” will not be found. The Match case option allows you to find your text exactly how you typed it.

Click OK to accept your changes and close the dialog box. If you want your selections to be the default options, click Set As Default. Select check boxes to turn on or off specific options. To set these options, click the down arrow to the right of the Search edit box again and select Options from the drop-down menu. There are several options you can set to customize the Find feature. Under Find, select the type of object you want from the drop-down menu. To do this, click the down arrow on the right side of the search edit box. You can also search for Word objects and document elements, such as graphics, tables, equations, footnotes, endnotes, and comments. NOTE: Moving your mouse over a thumbnail tells you on which page that occurrence can be found.

Using navigation pane in word 2010