Find

Searches for text and optionally replaces it; searches through text blocks, attributes, dimensions, and hyperlinks.

Accessing the Command

command bar: Find

menu bar: Edit | Find

: find

Displays a dialog box:

Enter text to look for or replace, and then click Find Next.

Command Options

Option	Shortcut	Description
Find Text String		Specifies the text to be located.
Replace With		Specifies the text with which to replace the located text. Leave this field empty when only searching for text.
Search In		Specifies the range of search: Entire Drawing - searches all text in the drawing. Current Selection - searches only among the selected entities.
Select Entities		Dismisses the dialog box so that you can select the entities to search; prompts you: Select entities - choose one or more entities. Select entities - choose more entities, or press Enter to return to the dialog box.
Options		Displays the Find and Replace Options dialog box; allows you to specify the kinds of text entities to search.
Find Next	Alt+F	Finds the next occurrance of the text string.
Replace	Alt+R	Replaces the found text string with the replacement string.
Replace All	Alt+A	Replaces all occurances of the text string with the replacement string.
Select All		Selects all occurances of the text string.
Zoom To		Zooms to the part of the drawing containing the found text string.

Choose options, and then click OK.

Find and Replace Options	Description
Block Attribute Value	Searches the values of block attributes as well.
Dimension Annotation Text	Searches dimension text as well.
Text (MText, DText, Text)	Searches regular text as well.
Table Text	Searches texts in tables.
Hyperlink	Searches hyperlinks (URLs) as well.
Hyperlink Description	Searches hyperlink descriptions as well.
Match Case	Searches the case of the text: Yes - finds text that matches upper and lower case. For example, searching for "BricsCAD" matches BricsCAD but not bricscad. No - finds all text, regardless of upper or lowercase.
Whole Words Only	Searches for full words: Yes - finds only text that matches entire words. For example, searching for "CAD" matches CAD but not BricsCAD. No - finds all text, including text embedded in longer words.
Use Wildcard	Allows to use wildcard characters such as * and ?

Procedures

Related Commands

Text - places single-lines of text in drawings.

-Text - places text and evaluates LISP expressions.

MText and -MText - places paragraph text.

AttDef - defines attribute text.

DdEdit - edits text.

Hyperlink - adds hyperlinks to entities.

Spell - checks the spelling of words.

Properties - modifies the properties of text.