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Find and replace
The Find/Replace command can be used to look for and select:
- Individual characters or groups of characters.
- Individual words.
- Invisible characters, Carriage returns, Tabs, Linefeeds.
- Other instances of the current selection.
- A wild card character '?' which may be typed to mean 'find any single
occurrence of any character'.
e.g. the search pattern 'b?d' would find 'bad', 'bed', 'bid' etc., and the
search pattern 'b??d' would find 'bald', 'band', 'bold' and so on.
You can also search for one set of characters and replace it with another.
To find text

- Click in the document at the point you want the search to start - normally
the beginning of the document. Ctrl-Up arrow is a convenient way to do
this.
- Click on the Find button or choose Find/Replace (F4) from the
Search menu.
A dialogue box will appear where you can set the options:

- Click In style to find only occurrences with the specified style
which you choose from the pop-up menu. Leave the Find writable icon
empty to find instances of the style regardless of content.
- Click Case sensitive to find only occurrences with the specified
upper and lower case text.
- Click Search backwards to search from the insertion point towards
the beginning of the document.
- Click Whole word to find only those occurrences that are separate
words.
- Type the search text into the Find writable icon.
- 3 Click Select on the Find button to start the search and
hide the dialogue box.
or
3 Click Adjust on the Find button to start the search and
retain the dialogue box.
Type
| To search for
|
?
| Any character (wild card)
|
@n
| Carriage return (end of paragraph)
|
@t
| Tab
|
@v
| Linefeed (forced new line)
|
@?
| ?
|
@@
| @
|
- Note: @n can only be used as the last part of a search string.
To find a selection
- Select the text or word you want to find.
- Choose Find selection (Shift-F5) from the Search menu.
To find again

- Click Adjust on the Find button or choose Find same
(Shift-F4) to find the next instance of the search pattern.
To replace text
- 1 Type the text you want to find into the Find writable icon.
2 Type the new text into the Replace with writable icon.
3 Click Replace to replace the next occurrence of the search pattern.
or
3 Click Replace all to replace all occurrences of the search pattern.
To replace again
- Choose Replace same (Ctrl-F4) to replace the next instance of
the search pattern.
To edit the dialogue writable icons
Drag and Drop operations can be performed between the writable fields in
the dialogue.
- Drag and Drop between dialogue fields operates on whole words (delimited by
space characters), and is intelligent - spaces are removed and inserted as
necessary.
- Dragging with Select moves text from the start of the field to the
word under the mouse.
- Dragging with Adjust moves the text from the word under the mouse to
the end of the field.
- Hold down Shift to make a copy.
Cut and paste in dialogues
Users of !Clipboard by Thomas Leonard can cut and paste between EasiWriter
documents and dialogues.
!Clipboard can be downloaded from:
www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/~tal197
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