Finding and replacing text and formatting

To display the Find & Replace dialog box, use the keyboard shortcut Control+F or select Edit > Find & Replace.

1. Type the text you want to find in the Search for box.
2. To replace the text with different text, type the new text in the Replace with box.
3. You can select various options, such as matching the case, matching whole words only, or doing a search for similar words. (See below for some other choices.)
4. When you have set up your search, click Find. To replace text, click Replace instead.

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The Find & Replace dialog.

If you click Find All, Writer selects all instances of the search text in the document. Similarly, if you click Replace All button, Writer will replace all matches.

Use Replace All with caution; otherwise, you may end up with some hilarious (and highly embarrassing) mistakes. A mistake with Replace All might require a manual, word-by-word search to fix.