Find and replace, and search

To rename a character or fix a spelling you keep getting wrong, find and replace it on the page. For a passage you can't place, search the whole space.

Find and replace on a page

Press ⋯ (More) at the end of the editor toolbar and choose Find and replace. On a phone, the same item is in the editor's ⋯ menu. The Find box is ready for typing as soon as the window opens. Type what you're looking for and press Enter: the matches are highlighted in the text, and the window shows which one you're on, as in 3/12.

• Press Enter again for the next match, or Shift+Enter for the previous one. The arrow buttons do the same. After the last match you go back to the first.
• Turn on Match case to find only text with exactly the same capitalization.
• Editing the search text clears the matches; press Enter to search again.

Type the new text in Replace with and press Replace to change only the match you're on. Replace all changes every match on the page and tells you how many it changed. Press Esc or click outside the window to close it.

What it searches

Find and replace looks through the whole of the page you have open. With two pages side by side in split view, it searches the one you worked in last. It finds exactly the text you type, within a single paragraph. Bold or colored letters in the middle of a word don't break the match.

Search all Documents and Manuscripts

Press Search in the sidebar to open the search window. Type a search term and press Enter to look through the names and text of your Documents, Manuscripts, and canvases. Capitalization doesn't matter here. The results say how many pages were found and show each page's name with the passage that contains your term. Pages whose names match come first. Click a result to go to that page. If there are many, press More at the bottom to see the rest. A search term can be up to 100 characters.

Tips

• To rename someone across several pages of a manuscript, first use Search to find the pages with that name, then open Find and replace on each.
• Before Replace all, try Replace on a few matches. The search also finds your text inside longer words — searching “Ann” finds the “Ann” in “Anna” — and a careless replace-all changes those too.