Publisher Search and Replace

[DarkClown]

I wonder if there is a way to limit the "replace" function on the selected text? I only manage to get a search function over the complete text resulting in "replace all" will also effect the complete text. So I have to replace every single  occurrence of the search text in a 200 pages text by manually clicking on "replace" since otherwise the complete search results would be replaced. I guess I'm just missing out the right way to set the search up properly to select an affected search area. Any Ideas what could be done? ( I thought there might be a chance to limit the search on "Sections" but I did not find a way for that either.)

Thx for your help

Cheers, Timo

[Old Bruce]

Sadly the Find and Replace is all or nothing. Every single piece of text is searched.

[v_kyr]

In Affinity find/replace on just selected text seems not to be yet supported.- There are some workarounds but usually one doesn't want to do it that way, because then unnecessary extra steps are usually necessary.

However, for one sort of a crippled workaround to limit search/replace take also a look here:

• find/replace on textchain or selected text

[DarkClown]

On 11/13/2021 at 7:13 PM, Old Bruce said:

Sadly the Find and Replace is all or nothing. Every single piece of text is searched.

That's very disappointing .... Seeing it's a highly configurable search an replace function ... but a very basic preselection is not possible 😞 ... But for some reason this describes the "Affinity Problem" for all products quite precisely. Brilliant functionality but struggeling with the plain basiucs ...

[only7yb]

Yes  
Being able to find/replace in selected parts of the document is crucial to my workflow
Looking forward to updates in this area