There are numerous situations in which the user is interested in finding the appearances of a certain word or a succession and possibly replacing them with another word or sequence of characters. Command Find of the menu Edit It allows the search for a certain text specified by the user and positioning the editing cursor on that text, within the document.
Following the execution of this order, the dialog window will be displayed Find and Replace: Significance of window fields Find and Replace:
- the field Find What – allows the specification of the text to be searched;
- the button Find Next – looking for the next occurrence in the document of the specified text;
- the button More – Expanding the dialog window by adding the following fields:
- Search – Specification of the portion of document (domain) in which the text entered in the field will be searched Find What: All (the whole document), Up (from the position of the insertion cursor towards the beginning of the document), Down (from the position of the cursor until the end of the document);
- SWITCH Match Case – whether or not the differentiation between the upper and small letters is achieved;
- SWITCH Find Whole Words Only – Only the whole words are sought without taking into account the words that contain the text inside them;
- SWITCH Use Wildcards – the use of characters with special significance in search;
- SWITCH Sounds Like – Search all similar character strings (phonetically) with that specified in the field Find What. It uses the lexicon of English, so it is not recommended for texts in Romanian;
- list Format – the format of the font and/or paragraphs can be specified, after which the search is made;
- list Special – Allows search for special characters (which will be inserted into the field Find What: End of paragraph end, TAB etc.) or other elements (footer notes, end, etc.).
- activating the check Highlight all items found in – The sought -after words will be highlighted.
Selecting the page Replace leads to the launch of the function Replace, with the retention of the information specified in the Dialog Window Find and Replace. The function Replace It can be activated and independently, through the order with the same name in the menu Edit and is very similar to the function Find. The difference lies in the fact that after finding the searched text it can be automatically replaced with a text specified in the field Replace With of the dialogue window Find and Replace. The replacement can be done for the current appearance (the button Replace) or for all the appearances in the document (the button Replace All). Current appearance can be ignored with the button Find Next, and the entire operation can be canceled with the button Cancel or by closing the dialog window Find and Replace.
Selecting the page Go To from the dialog window Find and Replace or launch in execution of the order with the same name within the menu Edit Ensures the automatic movement of the cursor in the document on the positions specified by a number of page, section or line, book or commentary, header or basement, at a table, graph, equation or other object. A bookmark It allows the user to quickly find certain portions of text. The insertion of a book sign is achieved through the order Bookmark of the menu Insert. After entering the book sign name (Bookmark Name), the button will be operated Add All the dialog window Bookmark. The button Delete of the same window allows to delete a selected book sign. Book signs can be sorted by name or their position in the text according to the field validation Sort By from the dialog window Bookmark. A comment can be introduced in the current position of the insertion cursor by choosing the option Comment from the menu Insert. At the bottom of the document window opens a window that allows editing the text of the comment, changing the comment name (he receives an default name), entering a sound comment (button Insert Sound Object) and specifying the one who made the comment (hidden list Comments from).
