User guide

112 Working with Text
Using Find and Replace
You can search publication text for an extraordinary variety of items: not just
words or parts of words, but a host of character and paragraph attributes such as
fonts, styles, alignment, bullets and numbering, missing fonts, drop caps... even
inline graphics and more! Once located, you can replace items either globally, or
on a case-by-case basis.
To use Find and Replace on frame text:
1. Choose Find & Replace... from the Edit menu.
2. In the dialog, type the text to be found in the Find box and its
replacement text (if any) in the Replace box. Click the down arrows to
view recent items. Click either box's button to use flyout menus to
select formats or special characters, or define a regular expression (for
a wildcard-type search).
3. Select the Range to be searched: Current Story (just the currently
selected text object or story), or All Stories (all text), or Current
Selection (only used with the Replace All function to operate on the
currently selected text).
4. Select Match whole word only to match character sequences that
have white space (space, tab character, page break, etc.) or
punctuation at each end, or which are at the start/end of a paragraph.
Select Match case for case-sensitive search. Select Regular
expressions to treat the contents of the Find box as an expression,
rather than as a literal string to be found.
5. Click Find Next to locate the first instance of the Find text.
- or -
Click Select All to highlight all instances of matching text in your
document simultaneously.
6. Click Replace if you want to substitute with replacement text.
Alternatively, click Find Next again to skip to the next matching text.
Continue using the Replace option as required until you reach the end
of your document.
- or -
Click Replace All to replace all instances of the found text with the
replacement text at the same time. PagePlus reports when the search is
completed.