Find and Replace

  • Open a word processing document.
  • Type the first 2 paragraphs of the story of the three little pigs or open a file prepared earlier.
  • Highlight the second paragraph, select Copy from the Edit menu (or COMMAND C).



  • Place the cursor under the second paragraph and select Paste from the edit menu (or COMMAND V).
  • Place the cursor under the third paragraph and Paste again.



  • Edit the second and third paragraph to correct the story.



  • From the Edit menu, select Find/Change. In the dialogue box type pig in the Find box and the name of any animal in the Change box.



  • Either click Find Next then Change, or click Change All. If using Change All, make sure the word being changed is not "hidden" inside a bigger word. eg If you change he to she, there will become tshere.



  • Try changing house to mansion or castle or .., wolf to debt collector or .., little to ugly etc.
  • Have students write an appropriate ending after all the changing.

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