Find and Replace Overload

[MaxClass]

Using Find and Replace in Publisher v1 (I also have v2) — Studio Mac M1 Max

Totally by accident, on many occasions, when I thought I had a word to paste into the Find Field after I had done a select all and copied a large amount of text that I had pasted into a new document and not realizing it didn’t copy so all the pervious text was on the clipboard I clicked in the “Find” Field and did a “Paste”.

Turns out it was trying to Paste the entire text of the document I had just copied, into the “Find” Field and it just sits there for maybe a minute with the beachball spinning until it is all selected, whereupon I realized what I had done but was locked out until it came back to life.

To avoid this happening you might consider truncating Find text by setting a limit to the length of text allowed to be Pasted in the “Find” Field to avoid this. Probably not a bad idea to limit the length of text in the “Replace” Field also.

if ( LengthOfTextStr > 20 ) then LengthOfTextStr = leftStr(  LengthOfTexStrt, 20 ) // something akin to this to avoid the problem

This is also something to consider in V2

I imagine the idea of Find and Replace was never mean to try and find an entire paragraph in a document so the number of characters to find should probably have some limit for uniqueness.

Thank you for listening. I couldn’t work with my Affinity Applications.

MaxClass