Find & Replace
4 min
quickly locate and update text across your documentation with the find & replace feature a simple, powerful feature that helps you maintain consistency and accuracy across your documentation how to access it below are the places where you can open find & replace depending on where you are working in the document menu open the three dots menu inside the editor to access find & replace location 1 in the side panel navigation use the three dots menu next to a document in the navigation panel location 2 in the space overview page open the space dashboard to see the find & replace button available only for free edits and draft & reviews system docid 3cwwi9judh8iykkpcqbdl edit modes location 3 how it works the find & replace feature helps you search for text and update it globally with precision here's the workflow type your word or phrase we automatically search and display preliminary findings, including the number of matches you can fine‑tune your search using match case – finds only text with the exact same capitalization for example, searching "api" will not match "api" whole words – matches only complete words searching for "cat" will ignore words like "catalog" include children – extends the search to all child documents under the current document useful for updating entire document branches choose your scope, such as a specific block type by default, all text based blocks are click replace or replace all to apply changes variables and glossary in find & replace the find & replace tool also works seamlessly with reusable variables docid\ kk4xbsf1ug4dzb8rzpgof and glossary docid\ fxh z2iok1ktebzjtwwlt terms to search for or replace a variable or glossary entry, simply type it using the standard syntax {{variablename}} {{glossaryterm}} you can search for a variable or glossary term and replace it with another replace standard text with a variable or glossary reference or perform the reverse replace a variable or glossary reference with plain text this allows you to quickly refactor naming conventions, update reusable content, and ensure consistent terminology across your documentation
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