WEBVTT Kind: captions Language: en 00:00:08.559 --> 00:00:12.730 In a long presentation like this, sometimes I have trouble finding a specific word or 00:00:12.730 --> 00:00:15.269 phrase that I know is in there somewhere. 00:00:15.269 --> 00:00:19.220 The Find feature can help by searching the presentation for you. 00:00:19.220 --> 00:00:25.560 To begin, click Find on the Home tab… type the word or phrase you're looking for… then 00:00:25.560 --> 00:00:29.240 click the button that says Find Next. 00:00:29.240 --> 00:00:34.460 If the word is found, PowerPoint will jump to the slide, and select the text for you. 00:00:34.460 --> 00:00:37.930 If you realize that you've made a mistake throughout your presentation, or you need 00:00:37.930 --> 00:00:42.720 to swap a certain word or phrase for another, there's a command for that too. 00:00:42.720 --> 00:00:47.820 Just click Replace on the Home tab, or right here in the dialog box. 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:55.159 I just need to change the years in this presentation, so I'm going to enter that here. 00:00:55.159 --> 00:01:00.331 When you're ready, click the Replace button… and PowerPoint will replace will replace the 00:01:00.331 --> 00:01:04.129 word, and take you to the next instance automatically. 00:01:04.129 --> 00:01:08.590 You can even use Replace All to change every instance at once, instead of cycling through 00:01:08.590 --> 00:01:11.270 them one by one. 00:01:11.270 --> 00:01:15.030 When it comes to using Replace All though, it’s important to remember that it could 00:01:15.030 --> 00:01:19.789 find matches you didn’t anticipate, and might not actually want to change. 00:01:19.789 --> 00:01:23.330 Generally, you don't want to use Replace All because it doesn't give you the option of 00:01:23.330 --> 00:01:25.900 skipping anything you don’t want to change. 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:29.920 So you should only use this option if you're absolutely sure that it won't replace anything 00:01:29.920 --> 00:01:32.179 you didn’t intend it to. 00:01:32.179 --> 00:01:35.819 Now that you know how to use Find and Replace, you can put this time-saving technique to 00:01:35.819 --> 00:01:37.920 work in your PowerPoint presentations.