Find and Replace

Accessing the Find Bar

To access Vellum’s Find Bar, use the magnifying glass button in the Text Editor’s toolbar.

One the left side of the Find Bar is a popup menu that lists its three different modes:

Find

Search for text across your entire book

Replace

Search for text and change it to use new text

Find Special

Search for specific formatting – e.g. Ornamental Breaks or bold

Find

The Find mode allows you to search for text throughout your entire book.

To find specific text, enter it in the text field next to the popup menu. Then, press the right arrow button (or simply hit Return) and Vellum will search for the next occurrence, starting from the position of your cursor in the Text Editor. To search backwards from the cursor position, use the left arrow button.

Use the gear menu to the right of the Find text field to change find options or insert find patterns.

Options

The Whole Words and Match Case options can be used to limit the number of matches:

Patterns

The Insert Pattern section allows you to find, and possibly replace, more complicated expressions.

Paragraph Break ¶

This will match any paragraph break. You can use this pattern in the Find text field to match a single, empty line in your book. You can also use this in the Replace text field.

Any Word Characters abc

This pattern will match any sequence of letters in a word. For instance, a Find string of “parlabcr” will match both “parlor” and “parlour.”

Replace

In Replace mode, you can search for specific text and change one instance – or all! – into the replacement text.

Replace Once

Replaces the found text with the contents of the Replacement Text field, and then searches for the next occurrence of the text in the Find text field.

Replace All

Replaces all occurrences of the specified text with the replacement text.

Find Special

Use the Find Special mode to locate unique formatting in your book.

By default, this mode allows you to search for any of Vellum’s Text Features, such as Subheads, Images, or Ornamental Breaks:

You can also search for character Formatting such as Bold, Italic, and Underline:

Note: Menus will only allow you to select features and formatting present in your book. Other items will be disabled.