Finding and Changing Text
You can search for words or phrases and replace them.
To find text:
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Choose Edit > Find/Change... or use the Ctrl+F keyboard
accelerator
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In the Find field of the Find/Change window, type the word
or phrase you want to find.
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Choose the options you want by clicking Consider Case, Whole
Words, and Find Backward.
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Click Consider Case if you want Cosmo Create to find
the word only if it's capitalized exactly as you typed it. By default,
Cosmo Create finds all instances of the word, no matter how they're
capitalized.
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Click Whole Words if you want Cosmo Create to find
that word alone and not just a sequence of characters. For instance,
suppose you're searching for "the." If you don't select Whole
Words, Cosmo Create also finds "the" in
"there."
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By default, Cosmo Create begins searching at the cursor location. When
it reaches the end of the document, it jumps to the top of the document
and continues searching. Click Find Backward if you
want Cosmo Create to start at the cursor location and search backward.
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Click the Find button.
If the text string appears in the document, the cursor moves to that
location and Cosmo Create highlights the string.
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To continue searching, click Find again or press the <Enter>
key.
To replace text strings:
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Specify what you want to replace the text with. You have two options:
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Type a replacement word or phrase in the Change field. Make
sure the menu button is labeled To.
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Select a string of text in the document, then choose Edit
> Copy. In the Find/Change window, choose By Paste from
the menu button next to Change.
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Use the buttons along the bottom of the window to find and replace the
text. You have several options:
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Click Find, then click the Change button.
This lets you find each occurrence of the word and decide if you want
to replace it.
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Click Find & Change to find the next instance of
the word and automatically change it.
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Click Change All to automatically replace all
instances of that word.