Find and Replace Words in PowerPoint 2016 for Windows

If you created a long presentation for a particular event or concept and then realize that you used the wrong terminology across the presentation, then what would you do? Yes, you can manually find the problem word and replace its each occurrence. But what if you have more than a few slides? Or even then, you might miss out locating the problem word in some occurrences. Your best choice is to do replace using the Find and Replace option in PowerPoint 2016, as explained in the following steps:

1. Open the presentation in which you have to find and replace a specific word. Access the Home tab on the Ribbon, as shown highlighted in blue within Figure 1.
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   Figure 1: Presentation opened
2. Within the Home tab, click the down arrow of the Replace (highlighted in red within Figure 2) button to bring up a drop-down menu, as shown in Figure 2. Click the Replace option in this drop-down menu (highlighted in blue within Figure 2).
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   Figure 2: Replace drop-down menu
3. This summons the Replace dialog box, as shown in Figure 3.
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   Figure 3: Replace dialog box
4. Now type the word you want to find within the Find what box (highlighted in red within Figure 4) and type the replacement word within the Replace with box (highlighted in blue within Figure 4).
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   Figure 4: Words typed within Replace dialog box
5. Within the Replace dialog box, you can select the check-boxes explained below to narrow the search:

Match case

6. This will match the letter case in the Replace process. For example, in this case it will locate two, but not Two or TWO.

Find whole words only

7. This will locate only whole words and not word stems. For example, in this case it will locate two, but not two-faced or two-piece.
6. Now click the Find Next button (highlighted in green within Figure 4, above) to find the next occurrence of the word.
7. Once the word which has to be replaced is found, you can proceed with any of the following options:

Replace

8. Click this button to replace a single instance of the found word. You can click the Find Next button to locate another instance.

Replace All

9. Click this button to replace all instances of the found word in the open presentation, all at once.
8. Once done, click the Close button.
9. Save your presentation.