Advanced Find And Replace Word For Mac
Oludare Padilla
In version 4 of Pages for Mac, I used to be able to find and replace mutiple paragraph returns or tabs from long documents, with the "advanced" find and replace feature. I cannot figure out how to do this in version 5. Can this be done or has this feature disappeared.
Hardly anything is "advanced" in Pages 5. Some F&R options have been tucked away in the little gear icon, upper left. As for the former ability to pick from a list of control characters, you'll have to find examples in your text and Copy/Paste to the fields in F&R.
I tried the copy paste thing, but when I paste a single paragraph returns in the replace with box, all the options "replace all", "replace and find", and replace are all greyed out. It doesn't allow me to do anything.
I've also since discovered the Edit/Find menu and used command F - selected the text I want to use, then used the Edit/Find/selection for find and Edit/Find/use selection for replace options in then menu.
I wonder if you could be more specific describing the method you discovered. I would like to be able to find a text string and replace it with something else. The original text string repeates throughout the document and has special characters. Would you method work for this???
Use the Search window to search words or document properties across multiple PDFs, use advanced search options, and search PDF indexes. For example, you can search across all PDFs in a specific location or all files in an open PDF Portfolio. The Replace With option isn't available in the Search window.
Use between two words to find documents that contain both terms in any order. For example, enter Paris AND France to identify documents that contain both Paris and France. Searches with AND and no other Boolean operators produce the same results as selecting the All Of The Words options.
You can also search for specific text strings that are within or not within a set of container tags. For example, you can search for the word Untitled contained in a title tag to find all the untitled pages on your site.
Right-click the icon at the top of the Search panel to open the pop-up menu that provides more options for checking in and checking out files (if you are using a version control system), do more find and replace operations, clear search results, or close the Search panel.
MS 2010. Each package of material has six or more documents. Multiple words have to be replaced in each document. By the time that I get to the next document the item that needs to be replaced is no longer visible in the dropdown so I have to retype the word that needs to be replaced and the replacement word.
e.g. The template has DATE in all capital letters so that I can find-and-replace it with the specific date in each document. I do a find-and-replace for the date in document 1, then continue replacing the remaining words. In document 2, I have to retype DATE and the specific date because document 1 had more than four more words to be replaced, so DATE no longer appears as a recent option in the dropdown box. Thanking you in advance for your assistance.
These settings will find all occurrences of two spaces, not just those at the end of a sentence. You can refine the search by prefacing both the find and replace strings with a period (or other punctuation mark).
I just installed the Advanced Find/Replace (Simply downloaded advanced_find-3.6.0.tar.gz, extracted it and used bash ./install.sh in the terminal) plugin for gedit 3.18.3 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS. It seems the installation was successful:Unfortunately, I couldn't find it anywhere in the bar in order to use it, even after restarting the computer:
You can use the tool to replace one word with another, which can be helpful in situations where you need to go back to change the spelling of a word or check a document for instances of a repeated word to avoid redundancy. For example, if you're deep into writing a paper and realize you've been misspelling someone's name (let's say Mark when it should have been Marc), you can use Find and Replace to easily find all instances of Mark and replace it with Marc with a few clicks.
Click the "Find" button to locate the matches first, the "Replace" button to replace each individual match (highlight which one you'd like to change by clicking on the list item), or the "Replace All" button to replace all matching words or phrases.
Normally, when you're working on a translation, you use Quick find to search for and replace text in the documents. But when you need to fine-tune your search, you need the Advanced find and replace window.
All the other options are the same as in the normal view of the window. However, you have no more options on controlling the match: memoQ will find the regular expression wherever they occur, even if they cover an entire word or an entire segment.
I see this as new behaviour. Without an old install of MSOffice to test I can't be absolutely sure, but in the past find/replace dialog boxes were often modal, and covered quite a lot of text. For find only tools this isn't necessary - they tend to have 2-4 controls of which only one is a text box (wide). Replace requires at least another text box and button, usually more ("replace all" etc.). Also buttons may need clearer labels in replace as the consequences of errors are larger - bigger again. So a find tool can fit in a status bar or tool bar at a width you can take in at a glance. Replace is just too big for this. That also hints at why new versions of word put "advanced find" in with replace despite using a sidebar which is big enough (the space appears to be used to show the locations of found items).
There's a trend towards non-intrusive "find" tools, e.g. in the status bar. Examples: Libreoffice; Firefox; Adobe Reader (the latter two are specifically included as an example of the new method, where "replace" isn't used)
MS Word (and possibly the rest of Office, though not Outlook while writing an email) uses a rather different sidebar "navigation" box. This provides different capabilities to the legacy find/replace tool (tabs in the same dialog box, the find bit now called "advanced find"). The find/replace tool looks rather old-fashioned now, but probably can't change much without breaking power users' workflow (touch typists who like keyboard shortcuts and remember how many times to hit tab).
This option will allow you to use regular expressions (advanced pattern matching) to locate different variations of a word or phrase. It requires special knowledge of regular expressions, but it is a very powerful search option.
Hold ALT key and select all occurances which you want to replace one by one while holding ALT key (It is not mandatory to hold ALT key when you first select the word, but for all other selections holding ALT key is mandatory).
You can find and replace text in the Visual Studio editor by using Find and Replace (Ctrl+F or Ctrl+H) or Find/Replace in Files (Ctrl+Shift+F or Ctrl+Shift+H). You can also find and replace some instances of a pattern by using multi-caret selection.
In Visual Studio, if you're renaming code symbols such as variables and methods, it's better to refactor them than to use find-and-replace. Refactoring is intelligent and understands scope, whereas find-and-replace blindly replaces all instances.
You can find and replace in Word using the Find and Replace dialog box as well as the Navigation Pane. If you use the dialog box, you can find and replace text and numbers and use wildcards for more advanced find and replace tasks. Wildcards are useful when you are not able to find an exact match. You can display the Find and Replace dialog box using a keyboard shortcut or the Home tab in the Ribbon.
It's important to note that wildcard searches are case sensitive. Also, Word uses "lazy" pattern matching so it will stop matching as soon as possible. This means that you could enter part of a word and find that part without using wildcards.
I agree. General find and replace would be very handy, but would require careful thought to make the results transparent and avoid unexpected changes. Updating of full tag text string or link text string would give much more predictable results - less so for regular text strings. It could take care of the tag renaming request I saw somewhere, although in a more round about way (I support a mechanism to rename tags).
To find words that match the capitalization you specify, or to restrict search results to the whole words you enter, click the pop-up menu to the left of the search field, then choose Whole Words or Match Case (or both).
A) can you change your Calculation method from AUtomatic to manual and then do the find and replace and see if it still asks to confirm? Please remember to change the method back to automatic after the replacement of links.
If you know a quick way to do this please share. It becomes especially complicated when you get one citation after another, something which the simple solution I proposed handles perfectly (as "complicated references" get a space after the comma when it is not a Scriptural citation). In my case, for example, I replaced 1700 Scriptural citations with a format that Logos understands in a matter of minutes (most of the time being spent going through manually about 50 find and replaces to make sure I wasn't getting false positives), making the document extremely useful within Logos without spending much time. Perfect for many, many scenarios.
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