Find & Replace

TextEdit’s find and replace features enable you to quickly locate or replace occurrences of text strings in your document.

✓ Tip

  • Most word processing and page layout applications include find and replace features. Although these features are somewhat limited in TextEdit, full-featured applications such as Microsoft Word and Adobe InDesign enable you to search for text, formatting, and other document elements as well as plain text.

To find text

1.
Choose Edit > Find > Find (Figure 47), or press . The Find dialog appears (Figure 48).
Figure 47. You’ll find commands for finding and replacing text on the Find submenu under the Edit ...

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