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How to Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document

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Problem

i have huge 300 page document where in lot of Short forms in uppercase is used ie., CRT - cathode ray tube etc. i want list all these type of words in a table or find one by one is also fine. Here is a simple tip on how to find all uppercase words in a word document ONE BY ONE or find the words which contain all uppercase letters such as RECIPESTER.

Solution

  1. Open your document in Microsoft Word. Click "Find" button from the "Home" group to launch Find funtion built-in Microsoft Word. Or just press "Crtl+F" to call out "Find and Replace" dialog box.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document
  2. Click "More >>" button from the "Find and Replace" dialog box.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document
  3. Now you could set more search options. Check "Use wildcards" to enable wildcards while searching in the Word document.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document
  4. Type "[A-Z]" (NO Quotation Marks) into the "Find what" textbox. Then, press "Find Next" to start finding all uppercase words one by one.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document 
  5. And you could see that word contains uppercase letters are hightlighted in the search result.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document 
  6. To find words which contain all uppercase letters, you could use these wildcards: "[{A-Z}]{2,100}" (NO Quotation Marks). Here, "{2-100}" is the number limit of letters in a word, for example, RECIPESTER has 10 uppercase letters.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document
  7. Now click on "Find Next" button to proceed it. You could see the uppercase are hightlighted.
    Find All Uppercase Words in a Word Document
    Would you have managed to find all uppercase words in a word document?

Tips

If you are using [{A-Z}]{2,100} wildcards, you can specify proper number according to your document.

See also

How to Find Any Character, Digit, or Letter in Microsoft Word
How to Customize the Find Operation in Word
How to Perform Find and Replace Operations with Complex Formatting in Word
How to Replace with a Subscript in Word

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