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- THIS OUTLINE EXPLAINS HOW TO FIND OR REPLACE A TEXT STRING
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- A. TO FIND A TEXT STRING,
- choose Find String from the Edit menu or use the Ctrl-F
- quick key combination. This will bring up an Option Box with
- three settings:
-
- 1. Search For What String - enter any text string in here that
- you would like to find. Use a "?" (question mark) to act as
- a wildcard. If you entered "B?D", PC-OUTLINE would find
- "BAD" or "BED" or "BCD" or "BZD".
- 2. Force Case To Be The Same - setting this to "Yes" causes
- 3. Search Scope - Setting this to "Only ON Entries" causes
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- B. Position the cursor here and try to find the text string
- "Again" by entering the letters in the Search For What
- String setting.
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- C. Now choose Find Again from the Edit menu and see where the
- cursor lands.
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- D. TO REPLACE ONE TEXT STRING WITH ANOTHER,
- 1. Search For What String - Behaves the same as in the Find
- String function.
- 2. Replace With What String - Enter a string to replace with.
- For example, if Search For What String were set to "Sad" and
- Replace With What String were set to "Happy" then all
- occurrences of "Sad" would be changed to "Happy".
- 3. Force Case To Be The Same - Behaves the same as in the Find
- String function.
- 4. Search Scope - Behaves the same as in the Find String
- function.
- 5. Ask Before Replacing - If this is set to "Yes", PC-OUTLINE
- will prompt you at each occurrence before replacing. If set
- to "No", PC-OUTLINE will replace without prompting.
- 6. All Occurrences - If this is set to "Yes", PC-OUTLINE will
- find all occurrences. If set to "No", then PC-OUTLINE wil
- find just the first occurrence.
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- E. Position the cursor here and replace the text string,
- "PC-OUTLINE", with the string ">> PC-OUTLINE <<". Just
- enter the text into the Search For What String and Replace
- With What String, and change the All Occurrences setting to
- Yes. You'll be prompted with a confirm box before each
- replacement is made.