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You can find text in a drawing and replace it automatically. You can also find special characters, such as an em dash or optional hyphen. You can edit text directly in the drawing window or in a dialog box.
Additional formatting options are available for paragraph text. You can apply these formatting options to artistic text by first converting the text to paragraph text. Likewise, you can apply special effects to paragraph text by converting the text to artistic text.
You can also convert both paragraph and artistic text to curves. By transforming characters into single lines or curve objects, you can add, delete, or move the nodes of individual characters to alter their shape. For more information, see Using curve objects.
When you convert text to curves, the appearance of the text is preserved, including font, style, character position and rotation, spacing, and any other text settings and effects. Any linked text objects are also converted to curves. If you convert paragraph text in a fixed-sized text frame to curves, any text that overflows the text frame is deleted. For information about fitting text to a text frame, see Formatting paragraph text.
| To find text | |
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Click Edit  Find and replace Find text.
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Type the text that you want to find in the Find box.
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If you want to find the exact case of the text that you specified, enable the Match case check box. |
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Click Find next.
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You can also find special characters by clicking the right arrowhead next to the
Find box, choosing a special character, and clicking Find next.
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| To find and replace text | |
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Click Edit Find and replace Replace text.
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Type the text that you want to find in the Find box.
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If you want to find the exact case of the text that you specified, enable the Match case check box. |
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Type the replacement text in the Replace with box.
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Click one of the following buttons:
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Find next — finds the next occurrence of the text that is specified in the
Find what box
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Replace — replaces the selected occurrence of the text that is specified in the
Find what box. If no occurrence is selected, Replace finds the next occurrence.
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Replace all — replaces every occurrence of the text that is specified in the
Find what box
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| To edit text | |
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Select the text.
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Click Text Edit text.
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In the Edit text dialog box, make changes to the text.
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Text that has been converted to curves cannot be edited.
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You can also use the Text tool to edit text. Click the Text tool, select the text
in the drawing window, and make changes to the text.
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Paragraph text cannot be converted to artistic text when it is linked to another
text frame, has special effects applied to it, or overflows the text frame.
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You can also use the Pick tool to convert text to curves. Right-click the text,
and click Convert to curves.
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, select the text, and click Text