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Beware of 'Find and Replace'!
Beware of the 'find and replace' facility in Word! I've just been doing some editing of my new novel and couldn't understand why on earth I'd made reference to 'spectacular Lucies' by the German forces. Then I remembered that I'd changed the name of one of my characters from Victor to Luc.
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I've done similar before and now always use 'replace next' rather than 'replace all'. It takes longer but you can check as you go along.
If I remember correctly, the use of a space before and after both 'find' and 'replace' avoids most of them.
Mike is right about 'whole word only' being the best wa, but remember to go through and check for variations too. If it's a name, are they ever referred to by a shortened form? If another type of word has it been used as a plural or with ed, ing or something else on the end?