Find and change text – Adobe InCopy CC 2015 User Manual
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Find and change text
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To search a range of text or a story, select the text or place the insertion point in the story. To search more than one
document, open the documents.
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Choose Edit > Find/Change, and then click the Text tab.
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Specify the range of your search from the Search menu, and click icons to include locked layers, master pages,
footnotes, and other items in the search.
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In the Find What box, describe what you want to search for:
• Type or paste the text you want to find.
• To search for or replace tabs, spaces, or other special characters, select a representative character (metacharacter)
from the pop-up menu to the right of the Find What box. You can also choose wildcard options such as Any Digit
or Any Character.
• Use a predefined query to find and replace text. (See
Find/change items using queries
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In the Change To box, type or paste the replacement text. You can also select a representative character from the
pop-up menu to the right of the Change To box.
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Click Find.
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To continue searching, click Find Next, Change (to change the current occurrence), Change All (a message indicates
the total number of changes), or Change/Find (to change the current occurrence and search for the next one).
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Click Done.
If you don’t get the search results you expected, make sure that you clear any formatting you may have included in a
previous search. You may also need to expand your search. For example, you may be searching only a selection or a
story instead of the document. Or, you may be searching for text that appears on an item, such as a locked layer,
footnote, or hidden conditional text, that is currently excluded from the search.
If you change your mind about replacing text, choose Edit > Undo Replace Text (or Undo Replace All Text).
To find the next occurrence of a previously searched-for phrase without having to open the Find/Change dialog box,
choose Edit > Find Next. In addition, previous search strings are stored in the Find/Change dialog box. You can select
a search string from the menu to the right of the option.