Finding and Replacing Text
The Find dialog box enables you to search a file for
specified text or numbers. You can also include special characters
(for example, paragraph marks and symbols) in your search criteria.
Replace enables you to search for a word and replace it with another.
Options available to narrow or speed your search are:
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Match Case. Finds
only those occurrences with the exact combination of uppercase and
lowercase letters specified in the Find What box.
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Regular Expression. Searches
for text using the wildcard characters ,*, (matches any number of
characters) and a question mark, ?, (matches any single character).
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Wrap around search. Searches
the entire file from the current insertion point.
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Direction (to search). Up
searches from the insertion point to the beginning of the document.
Down searches from the insertion point to the end of the document.
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Mark All. Marks
all of the lines with instances of your search text with a bookmark.
For more information, see Using Bookmarks to Move Within a File.