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12 hours ago, mizwizzy said:

Here's what you do (I just tried it). Type your text in Affinity Designer. Go to File, choose Edit in Publisher. Affinity Publisher opens and your text is there. Go to Text, choose Find and use the Find/Replace function. When you're finished, go to File, choose Edit in Designer. Your text is now back in Affinity Designer the way you wish it to be. Nothing remains in Publisher. It passes it there for editing and passes it back to Designer when complete.

This may be an extra step and you will need to buy Publisher to use this method. Publisher is made to handle text formatting anyway so it is a good tool to have in your arsenal. Happy find and replacing! 

 

Thanks for the try and the help, but if the solution requires Publisher... it's not exactly a solution.

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7 minutes ago, Ali said:

If you want to request this as a future feature in Designer, then add your request in the correct forum, which is here: https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/forum/53-feedback-for-affinity-designer-on-desktop/

Me? Did you read the complete thread? Many people requesting it since 2014!!!

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31 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Yes, but that user would be better buying/using Publisher for that purpose. Right tool, after all, and for the Affinity suite the current "right tool" for anything text heavy is Publisher.

I can't understand why you make an effort so hard on defending the lack of what in fact is an absolute standard tool in any program out there.

Illustrator has it.
Corel Draw has it.
Inkscape has it.
Freehand has (or had) it.

Do you need me to continue?

Affinity Publisher may be an excellent program to edit books, leaflets and so on, but what are you telling us? That we cannot work in designs with lots of texts in Affinity Designer? That we cannot work on designs with repetitive pieces on them? What about labels, tickets, checks...?

There's no excuse.

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You just have to look at the competitors. There is an enormous and complex Find and Replace tool in Illustrator (not only for text). Damn, it was even in the old Freehand!

I'm really angry with Affinity today. This is a big nonsense.

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1 minute ago, Ali said:

My understanding (and this goes back to PagePlus and DrawPlus days) is that Designer is essentially a digital drawing app, and can be used for short, graphic-heavy publications. Anything text-heavy would be better done in Publisher, which is a dedicated multi-page document set-up app.

Whilst Find & Replace might be handy in designer, I can see why it might not be there. Right tool for the job???

I don't agree with that opinion. Find and replace is an essential function almost in every program... and also fundamental when designing, while there are many repetitive designs with text that you can do (i.e. labels). This lack is unfair and stupid. I now have many hours to do a task that should take a couple of minutes.

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WTF???
There's no Find and Replace function in Affinity Designer!!!

I just came to question where it was.

I can't believe it...

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Totally agree to this request, and I must say I can't believe that we have to pray for this basic feature.