Quick links to procedures on this page:
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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 | |
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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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Click the Text tool
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Perform a task from the following table.
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Edit artistic text
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Click in the artistic text.
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Edit paragraph text
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Click in the text frame.
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Text that has been converted to curves cannot be edited.
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You can also edit text by clicking Text Edit, and making changes to the text
in the Edit text dialog box.
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| To convert text | |
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Paragraph text cannot be converted to artistic text when it’s in a linked frame
or has special effects applied to it.
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You can also convert text to curves by clicking the Pick tool
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the text, and clicking Convert to curves.
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