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Agree +1

Though it has been requested already – It still is quite disturbing if one wants to replace just a few, particular occurences of the found results. That can be both time consuming and risky if in the list an unwanted result gets replaced.

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9 hours ago, fde101 said:

story (series of linked frames)

I hope that would already become covered by the option "Text Frame" (possibly named "text elements" in the topic). In case you rather want to search within one frame only of a linked series the option "Selection" would work.

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+1 from me!

Just doing my first project with Affinity Publisher and it's great, generally. Coming from InDesign, I'm amazed that Afinity Publisher search/replace has all these cool things like regex search etc., but something so basic as limiting your search to the text / table / text frame selected is missing.

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On 5/16/2019 at 6:45 PM, Matt Hall said:

add an option to limit the search to given element, instead of the whole document

+1

Wait. Strike that.

+1000!

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This issue has not been addressed in Publisher 1.9.0 so I'm adding my name to the growing list. It really is a major fail in Publisher that you can't limit find (and replace) in this fundamental way, especially since InDesign has always had it (you can limit your searches to Story – i.e. linked text boxes) and, if I remember the dim, distant days aright, so did Quark Express. Having to create a new document just so you can get rid of all the superfluous paragraph breaks in an imported PDF document strikes me as counter to the Affinity ethos. If, using Personas, I can tidy up a pic in Photo or create some simple artwork in Designer without leaving my Publisher document, why do I have to leave that document (and create another one) to do a simple find and replace in one article? 

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+ 1...

Damn, i don't have enough numbers on the keyboard!

 

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This recent thread about the missing ability to clear the found search results (which can cause unwanted changes) makes bump this request thread about options in Find & Replace to limit a search by Selection –> Frame –> Page –> Story / Section –> Document.

Since I did a forums search already to get here I add this related discussion from the Questions forum:

 

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Since this thread has been getting new votes recently: Does anyone know if Serif's decision to separate/rename this subforum to "Feedback for Affinity V1 products [ARCHIVE]" will affect feature requests for V2?

Interestingly, the Bugs subforums have also been separated, even though various known, logged and tagged bugs from V1 were never resolved and thus may appear in V2 – whereas the Questions subforum continues to handle both versions unseparated, even though certain answers can not work for both or may confuse without a literal distinction between V1 and V2.

The fact that Serif announced in various recent posts that V1 would not receive another update to fix existing bugs (but only those that will occur in the future due to changes in the operating systems), suggests to me that neither further "bumping" of bug reports nor feature requests for V1 makes any more sense.

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17 minutes ago, Bob P said:

Do Serif actually look at these posts? This has been an active thread for over 3 years and nothing has happened.

Yes, they do.

But the length of a topic, or the number of requests made, do not control what gets implemented. Our requests influence Serif's plans, but there are many factors that determine what gets done, and when.

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46 minutes ago, thomaso said:

Since this thread has been getting new votes recently: Does anyone know if Serif's decision to separate/rename this subforum to "Feedback for Affinity V1 products [ARCHIVE]" will affect feature requests for V2?

Interestingly, the Bugs subforums have also been separated, even though various known, logged and tagged bugs from V1 were never resolved and thus may appear in V2 – whereas the Questions subforum continues to handle both versions unseparated, even though certain answers can not work for both or may confuse without a literal distinction between V1 and V2.

The fact that Serif announced in various recent posts that V1 would not receive another update to fix existing bugs (but only those that will occur in the future due to changes in the operating systems), suggests to me that neither further "bumping" of bug reports nor feature requests for V1 makes any more sense.

I specifically asked the moderators on whether or not to continue in these threads or to create new ones for V2. They say they still look at these threads and said there was no need to create new ones for V2. So I presume they have them tagged to internal feature requests/ bugtracking software the way other software vendors tend to do.

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