IBM Lotus Symphony
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In Lotus® Symphony™ Documents, you can find words, formatting, styles, and more. You can navigate from one result to the next, or you can highlight all results at once, then apply another format or replace the words by other text.
To find text within the whole document, open the Find and Replace dialog without any active text selection. If you want to search only a part of your document, first select that part of text, then open the Find and Replace dialog.
If you closed the dialog, you can press a key combination (Ctrl+Shift+F) to find the next text without opening the dialog.
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Unlike searching text, replacing text cannot be restricted to the current selection only. |
When you click Replace, Lotus Symphony Documents will search the whole document for the text in the Search for box, starting at the current cursor position. When text is found, Lotus Symphony Documents highlights the text and waits for your response. Click Replace to replace the highlighted text in the document with the text in the Replace with text box. Click Find to advance to the next found text without replacing the current selection.
When you click Replace All, Lotus Symphony Documents replaces all text that matches your entry.
You want to find all text in your document to which a certain Paragraph Style is assigned, for example the "Heading 2" style.
You want to find all text in your document to which a certain direct character formatting is assigned.
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Finding formats only finds direct character attributes, it does not find attributes applied as part of a style. |
The similarity search can find text that is almost the same as your search text. You can set the number of characters that are allowed to differ.
Select the Similarity search option and optionally click the ... button to change the settings. (Setting all three numbers to 1 works fine for English text.)
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When you have enabled Asian language support, the Find and Replace dialog offers options to search Asian text. |
The Navigator is the main tool for finding and selecting objects. You can also use the Navigator to move and arrange chapters, providing an outline view to your document.
Use the small Navigation window to quickly jump to the next object or find the next text in your document.