Sometimes, you want to do more than just find a term in the text. You also want an easy way of replacing it with another term. The ribbon command Home | Replace (in the Search group) is used for this purpose.
Proceed as follows:
1. | Choose the ribbon command Home | Replace . |
2. | Under Search for, enter the text for which you want to search. |
3. | Under Replace with, enter the text that is to replace the search text. |
5. | Click on the Search button to start the search. |
When TextMaker finds the search text, it scrolls to its position in the document and selects it.
You now have the following options:
A. | You can click on Replace, whereupon the search term is replaced with the replacement term and TextMaker jumps to the next occurrence of the search term. |
B. | You can click on Search again, whereupon TextMaker jumps to the next occurrence of the search term – without replacing the term. |
C. | You can click on Replace all, whereupon TextMaker replaces all other occurrences of the search term in the text. |
D. | You can close the dialog box by choosing Close. |
Tip: It is even possible to search for formatting and replace it with different formatting, for example, replacing bold passages with passages in italics. For more information, see Searching/replacing formatting.