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Apple iWork 08 Tutorials
Create Dynamic Documents / Find and Replace Text
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Find and replace. As we wrap up our work here in chapter four. Fairly easy to use so you can go to the edit menu and then just choose your find options and then find, find next, jump to selection if you have something selected. But the one I want you to remember, of course, is find and I want you also to remember the keyboard shortcut because you probably won't use the edit menu a whole lot to open up this find dialog box and also the find dialog box includes the replace. So command F launches this and you can see here now you can use it in either simple or advanced mode. Advanced mode lets you make selections such as match the case or the style if you want to look for just body text or in main text body or entire document. Now, I want you also to notice something that happens. We can search for an entire word certainly, but we don't have to remember the entire spelling of the word or the entire thing we're looking for. If we're looking for instances of Brian for example, we don't know whether it starts, whether it's B-r-y or B-r-i, just try B-r and then from the insertion point, so if the insertion point is there, we'll make the find dialog box come up again, and I click on next or just hit enter on my keyboard, it'll find B-r and indeed there's the text that I'm looking for. Same thing there. So it'll just toggle me back and forth. Now, if I have placeholder text still in place like this, it will not seek or search through that text, but everything else should be fair game. Also, remember with the command F, that you can use replacements as well, so you can replace Brian with maybe you want to put in B-r-y-a-n and do a quick correction of spelling for where the name, in this case I'm spelling it wrong here with a Y, but go to the next instance and then do a replace and that's how you make those changes throughout the document. Now, another thing that is interesting with Pages that you saw just above the find is show search. So if you're wondering what that is, go ahead and give it a click and now you can type in B-r-. Again, you don't have to use the entire search string here. You can just use a portion of it and now you get all instances of a certain phrase. This can be very helpful as you might expect in longer documents where you're like, I don't even, I want to just find the subject matter. Maybe you were sent a 10-page or a 50-page white paper, but you're just looking for that specific piece of information. Rather than even doing the command F and doing a find for a word to help you locate that specific piece of information, you can type in B-r as your search phrase and then not only will you see every instance, but it may also help you look at the context of where that phrase fits or that word fits so you have a lot better chance of pinpointing exactly what you're looking for in the documents. You can erase your search like this to make this search pane go away. You go back to the edit menu and hide it just like that.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Apple iWork 08 |
| Author: | Brian Culp |
| SKU: | 33851 |
| ISBN: | 1-934743-50-X |
| Release Date: | 2008-02-07 |
| Duration: | 6.5 hrs / 105 lessons |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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