Patent Document ID: 4812966
Application ID: 06798796

Base Claim:
1. A method of searching for a prescribed word block having a head portion at its beginning and a tail portion at its end, said head portion and said tail portion constituting less than the entirety of said word block, said searching being performed within a document that is stored in a memory of word processing equipment, comprising the steps of: inputting to the word processing equipment a leading word which serves to define a head portion of a word block desired to be located; inputting to the word processing equipment a trailing word which serves to define a tail portion of the word block desired to be located; and searching the document for a word block with a head portion that corresponds to said leading word, and a tail portion that corresponds to said trailing word.

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Claim 3:
3. A method according to claim 1, comprising the further steps of: displaying said word block obtained in the word block searching step; repeating said word block searching step to find all word blocks having said corresponding head portion and said corresponding trailing portion within a portion of said document; and displaying each of said word blocks.