You can find every instance of a word or phrase in your document and optionally change it to something else.

Here are ways to find and replace text:
  • Choose Edit > Find > Find, click Simple or Advanced to set up find/replace criteria, and then click a button to conduct find/replace operations.

    • Simple:  
      In the Find field, type the text you want to find, and type any text you want to replace it with in the Replace field.
    • Advanced:  
      In addition to typing Find and Replace text, you can set up additional find/replace criteria.
    • Replace All:  
      Automatically conducts the find/replace operation without your review.
    • Replace:  
      Replaces the current selection with the replacement text.
    • Replace & Find:  
      Replaces the current selection with the replacement text and immediately finds the next occurrence of the Find text.
    • Next 
      or Previous:  Finds the next or previous occurrence of the Find text.
  • Use the other commands on the Edit > Find submenu.

    • Find:  
      Displays search results for terms typed in the document search field.
    • Find Next 
      or Find Previous:  Finds the next or previous occurrence of the current Find text.
    • Use Selection for Find:  
      Finds the next occurrence of the selected text.
    • Jump to Selection:  
      Displays the selected text when it's not currently in view.
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