Search & Replace - Selected Text Only

If you go to Edit -> Find -> Find...

There you will have the Find and replace menu, where you can choose "advanced", and as you will see there is two options for selection "entire document" or "main text" And I'm sorry if it's not EXACTLY how it is put in the english version (I'm using Pages with danish language), but I'm positive that these two are the only options for seperate Find and Replace

"I" means "in" and "hele documentet" means entire document. I'm sorry, but if you need to find and replace throughout every paragraph, you will have to copy-paste every paragraph into another empty document and do it manually there, and then copy paste it back into the original document

/Dooba

Hello Dooba

In the 1st case, the tool search everywhere in the document :

main text layer, text boxes, tables, shapes

In the 2nd case it seach only in the main text layer, if there is one (which means if the document is a word processing one).

It doesn't fit the asker's requirements.

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 8 janvier 2011 17:36:48

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MacMyDays wrote:

Yet, Pages doesn't offer the option to find and replace in "selection" or selected text.

The feature is unavailable because Apple employees working upon Pages thought that it's not useful for a lot of users.

My own workaround is to copy the selected range, paste in a blank document,

apply Find / Replace

then select all,

copy

paste in the original document.

Am I missing something here? Anybody know of a hidden switch I can turn on or a preference buried somewhere that will allow me to do this standard word processing and document editing practice of search and replace only wihtin a selection of text? I mean even Apple Mail.app offers this functionality, one really wonders why not in the top word processing app for the Mac?

The employees working upon Mail made an other choice. Why not ?

If you really miss the feature, use the dedicated channel :

Go to "Provide Pages Feedback" in the "Pages" menu , describe what you wish.

Then, cross your fingers, and wait at least for iWork'11 or 12 ;-)

Yvan KOENIG (VALLAURIS, France) mardi 8 janvier 2011 17:41:30

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No, I haven't found it being able to search in a selected paragraph or section. But you can tell the Spelling control where to start by inserting you insertion point in the text there you want to start.