Gobe Productive User's Guide - Find & Replace

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# Find & Replace

Find and Replace Text | Find Again | Find a Selection

The Find and Replace features of Gobe Productive allow you to quickly search the text of a document for a particular string of text. Using the replace feature, you can instruct the program to replace these text strings with another string of text. For large documents, this feature can be an invaluable tool for editing and making global changes to a document.

## To Find and Replace Text

1. From the Document menu select Find/Replace, then select Find/Replace from the submenu. The Find dialog box is displayed.
2. Enter the text you wish to Find. Use the Insert Special tool to place special characters, such as tabs and page breaks, into the find criteria. If you do not want to replace anything, click Find. Otherwise continue with these steps.
3. Enter the text with which you want to Replace the found text. Use the Insert Special tool to place special characters, such as tabs and page breaks, into the replace criteria.
4. By default, the finding process finds text that matches the exact text case you entered. For example, entering "Sample" is not the same as "sample". Check Ignore Case if you want the program to find text regardless of the case.
5. The finding process locates text matches regardless of whether the text is a complete word or within another word. For example, if your criteria is "cat", the process finds "cat" as well as "catalog". Check Entire Word if you want the finding process to locate only entire words matching your criteria.
6. The finding process begins where-ever the cursor is placed and continues to the end of the document. If you want the process to "wrap" around to the beginning of the document and continue until it reaches the cursor point, check Wrap.
7. Click Find to locate the next instance of the text in the Find field (the text is not replaced).
   Click Replace to swap the current selection (in the workspace) with the text in the Replace field.
   Click Replace and Find to replace the current selection (in the workspace) and locate the next instance of the text in the Find field. The next instance is not replaced, only located.
   Click Replace All to replace all instances of the text in the Find field with the text in the Replace field.

## To Find Again

At anytime while working in a document, you can invoke the last find action you performed. The search is performed from the insertion point forward in the document. If you have the Wrap option checked, the find process searches the entire document.

### To Perform the Last Find Again

1. From the Document menu, select Find/Replace and then select Find Again from the submenu. The application searches for the next instance of whatever text is in the Find field of the Find and Replace dialog box.

- You can also press [ALT] [G] to invoke this process.

## To Find a Selection

You can also highlight any text in a document and instruct the program to find the next instance of that text in the document.

1. Select the text you want to find.
2. From the Document menu, select Find/Replace, and then select Find Selection from the submenu.
3. The program locates the next instance of the selected text in the document.

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