User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Finding and changing text
Use the Text tab in the Find palette to search for specific text or characters in selected text objects
and entire documents. You can replace or delete found text selections one at a time or all at once (see
"Text search options" on page 619).
The Text tab also lets you search for text with specific font, size, and style attributes, and change the
attributes of found text.
To find and change text:
1. Choose Edit | Find to open the Find palette. Click the Text tab to select it. To search for text,
type the text in the Find box or select a special text character. Specify that you want to find
only whole words or text matching the capitalization (case) of the Find text.
2. If you want to replace found text or characters, type the replacement text in the Change To
box or select a special text character. When the Change To box contains at least one
character (including a space), the Change All button is available.
3. Click Find to locate the first occurrence of the specified item. If one or more text objects are
selected, Canvas searches the text contained in the first selected object. If no text objects
are selected, Canvas searches the entire document.
4. If Canvas finds the specified item, it highlights the text or character in the document. Click
Find to search for the next occurrence of the specified text. If the Change To box contains
replacement text or a special character, the Change button is available. Click Change to
replace the highlighted item with the Change To text or special character.
5. To continue searching, click Find. Repeat the previous step if Canvas finds another
occurrence of the search item. When Canvas completes the operation, it displays a message.
Click OK in the message box to continue.
You can click Change All to replace all occurrences of the Find text or special character with
the text in the Change To box, without first clicking Find.
Finding and changing text attributes
You can search for and change text attributes (whether or not you also search for specific text). The
text attributes you can seek and change are font, type size, and text style.
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