Find and Replace dialog boxes
You can search for text that is part of the name or description using the Find dialog box, or you can search for and replace text using the Replace dialog box. You can also move directly to a question or routing item in the Routings or Questions panes by typing the start of the item name.
Finding a question using the Find dialog box
On the Edit menu, click Find, or press Ctrl+F.
Fields on the Find dialog box
Find what
Enter a string of characters. You can search for:
▪A partial match. Type (or paste in) any words that you want to find. The search finds items that contain any or all of the words. Minor words such as the, a, and and are ignored. For example, a search for quick brown fox would find items such as brown fox, quick cat, and foxtrot.
▪An exact match. Type (or paste in) the exact text string surrounded by double quotation marks. The search finds items that contain the exact text typed in (including minor words such as the, a, and and). The text can be part of a longer string. For example, a search for "The quick brown fox" would find:
The quick brown fox escaped from the cat's grasp
but not
A quick brown fox
Match case
By default, the search is not case sensitive. For example, searching for "quick brown fox", "Quick brown fox", or "Quick Brown Fox" all give the same results. To restrict the search to match the case of the search text exactly, check this box.
Within
Choose whether to search just the question text or both question and response text.
Look in
You can broaden or narrow your search by choosing from the following options:
▪Name. Search for the string in the question name.
▪Description. Search for the string in the question name and description.
Find Next
Choose this button to move to the next instance of the search string. The Find dialog box searches from the current position to the end and then cycles round until the starting point of the search is reached.
Replacing question or response text
1 On the Edit menu, click Replace, or press Ctrl+H.
All fields are as for the Find dialog box, with the addition of:
Replace with. Enter a string of characters to replace the text in the Find field.
2 Choose Replace Next to move to the next question or response containing the characters in the Find field and replace them with the characters in the Replace with field.
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