Find and Replace Text

In Interlinear Text, Concordance or Word List Concordance, you use the Find and Replace dialog box to find or find and replace text in the currently displayed Baseline tab.

Change occurrence of a spelling is the recommended way to change the spelling of a word in the text corpus. It uses the Change Spelling dialog box, which allows control which can prevent duplicate words that you later may need to manually delete or other undesirable results, especially in glossed, analyzed or charted texts. If you have analyzed this text or other texts in which the word appears, you should not use the Find and Replace dialog box.

1. To open the Find and Replace dialog box, do one of the following:

   • On the toolbar, click .

   • Press the shortcut keys Ctrl+Shift+F (Find tab), or Ctrl+H (Replace tab).

   • On the Edit menu, click Find, or Replace.

2. In the Find tab, do the following:

   • In the Find what box, enter the search text (that is, the character string, word, or phrase that you want to search for).

   • If necessary, click More to display the Search Options pane, and then specify any search options for the Find what text.

   • Click Find Next.

3. In the Replace tab, do the following:

   • In the Find what box, enter the search text (that is, the character string, word, or phrase that you want to search for).

   • If necessary, click More to display the Search Options pane and then specify any search options for the Find what text.

   • In the Replace with box, enter the replacement text, and then do any of the following:

     If necessary, click More to display the Search Options pane, and then specify any replacement options for the Replace with text.

     Click Replace once to find the next occurrence, and then either click Replace again to replace that occurrence and then find the next occurrence, or click Find Next to not replace that occurrence and find the next occurrence. Repeat until all occurrences are found.

     Click Replace All to replace all occurrences at the same time.

4. Click Close.

Important

• When you leave the Baseline tab or refresh the window (F5), any new words and spellings are added to the word list. Make sure the new spelling is correct or you may need to manually delete unwanted words from the word list.

• For special search or replacement criteria, refer to Find or Replace Formatting or Find or Replace using regular expressions.

• You may want to specify a spelling status for the word, particularly if you are using vernacular spell checking.

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