Find and Replace: FIND

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Toolbar: Standard > Find and Replace

Ribbon: Annotate > Find and Replace (in Text)

Menu: Edit > Find and Replace

Keyboard: _FIND

Searches for text and optionally replaces it. You can search the entire drawing, the current layout, or selected entities. Any changes made to the text are visible in the drawing after you click Done.

DIALOG BOX OPTIONS

Find What Type or select the text to find.

Find Where Select where to search for text: the entire drawing, the current layout, or selected entities. If desired, click ()to switch to the drawing and select the entities to search.

Replace With Type or select the text to replace found text with (optional).

Location Displays a list of all locations where the text was found, the entity type, and the text characters. Entity types can include single-line text, multiline text, dimension leaders, hyperlinks, alternate text, paperspace and modelspace. Note that some types of dimension leaders are listed as multiline text because of the way dimensions are created.

Match Case Select to find only text that matches the upper and lower case specified in Find What.

Find Whole Words Only Select to find only whole words that match the text in Find What.

Search Xreferences Select to include external references in the search.

Search Blocks Select to include blocks in the search.

Block Attribute Value Select to search block attribute values.

Dimension or Leader Text Select to search both dimension and leader text.

Single-line or Multiline Text Select to search both single-line and multiline text.

Hyperlink Select to search hyperlinks.

Hyperlink Description Select to search hyperlink descriptions.

Replace Click to replace selected text in the Location list with text from Replace With.

Replace All Click to replace all matching text without searching first.

Find Next Click to find matching text.

Done Click when finished and to see changes in the drawing.

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