Finding, editing, and converting text

You can find text in a document 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. To apply these formatting options to artistic text, you first need to convert the artistic text to paragraph text. Likewise, you can apply special effects to paragraph text by converting the text to artistic text. Converting text may result in the loss of any formatting.

You can also convert both paragraph and artistic text to curves. By transforming characters into 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 text.

To find text

1 .	Click Edit Find and replace Find text.

You can also find special characters by clicking the right arrowhead next to the Find box, choosing a special character, and clicking Find next.

To find and replace text

1 .	Click Edit Find and replace Replace text.

To edit text

1 .	Click the Text tool .

Text that has been converted to curves cannot be edited.

You can also edit text by clicking Text Edit text, and making changes to the text in the Edit text dialog box.

To convert text

To	Do the following
Convert paragraph text to artistic text	Using the Pick tool , select the text, and click Text Convert to artistic text.
Convert artistic text to paragraph text	Using the Pick tool , select the text, and click Text Convert to paragraph text.
Convert artistic or paragraph text to curves	Using the Pick tool , select the text, and click Object Convert to curves.

Paragraph text cannot be converted to artistic text when it’s in a linked frame, has text overflow, or has special effects applied to it.

You can also convert text to curves by clicking the Pick tool , right-clicking the text, and clicking Convert to curves.

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