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Find and replace

The Find/Replace command can be used to look for and select:

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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:

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

  1. Select the text or word you want to find.
  2. Choose Find selection (Shift-F5) from the Search menu.

To find again

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

To edit the dialogue writable icons

Drag and Drop operations can be performed between the writable fields in the dialogue.

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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