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Find and Replace

The Editor's Find and Replace tool lets you search the documents open in the grid and replace text without leaving your workspace. You can move through matches one at a time, see every match at once, or replace across the whole document in a single action, with a confirmation step before any bulk change.

Opening Find and Replace

You can open the tool in three ways:

  1. From the Edit menu, select Find and Replace.

  2. From the More (⋯) menu on the Quick toolbar above the grid, select Find and Replace.

  3. Press Ctrl+Shift+F.

The tool opens as a floating panel over the grid, and you can drag it anywhere. It always searches the language of the cell you have selected, shown in the panel header (for example, Find and replace · fr.

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Searching for text

Follow these steps to find text:

  1. Type the text you want to find in the Find field.

  2. Choose a search mode from the dropdown before the field (the default is Contains).

  3. Turn on Ignore case to match regardless of capitalization (off by default).

  4. Use Next and Previous to move between matches, or Find all to show every matching segment in the grid.

The available search modes are:

Mode

What it matches

Contains

Segments that contain the text anywhere.

Whole segment

Segments whose entire content matches the text.

Wildcards

Patterns that use wildcard characters.

Regex

Regular-expression patterns.
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Find all adds a temporary filter on top of your current grid filter. Click Clear filter to restore your previous view exactly.

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Replacing text

Follow these steps to replace text:

  1. Expand the Replace section.

  2. Type the replacement text.

  3. Click Replace to replace the current match and move to the next one, or Replace all to replace every match.

  4. When you choose Replace all, a confirmation dialog asks whether to replace in the matching segments. Click View all to preview the matched segments first, or Replace all to apply the change immediately.

If the focused language is locked or you do not have edit rights, the Replace options are hidden and a short notice explains why. You can still use Find.

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Learn More

  • Filters Panel: Build and refine grid filters, including the case-sensitivity option used by search.

  • Memory Finder Panel: Uses the same search modes when looking up translation memory matches.

  • Go To: Jump straight to a known segment number or string ID.