Find, edit, and convert text

To find text
To find and replace text
To find and replace text properties
To edit text
To convert text

You can find text in a document and replace it automatically. You can also find and replace the properties of text objects. You can 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 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.

To find text

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1 Click Edit Find and Replace.
2 In the Find and Replace inspector, choose Find and Replace Text from the list box at the top of the inspector.
3 Type the text that you want to find in the Find box.
If you want to find the exact case of the text that you specified, enable the Match case check box.
If you want to find whole words only, enable the Find whole words only check box.
4 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.

You can also expand the search range to find text on all document pages, a range of pages, or specific pages. Conversely, you can limit the search to only currently selected objects. For more information, see To set the search range.

To find and replace text

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1 Click Edit Find and Replace.
2 In the Find and Replace inspector, choose Find and Replace Text from the list box at the top of the inspector.
3 Enable the Replace option.
4 Type the text that you want to find in the Find box.
If you want to find the exact case of the text that you specified, enable the Match case check box.
If you want to find only whole words, enable the Find whole words only check box.
5 Type the replacement text in the Replace box.
6 Click one of the following buttons:
• Find Next > to scroll through occurrences of the text that is specified in the Find box
• Replace — replaces the selected occurrence of the text that is specified in the Find box. If no occurrence is selected, Replace finds the next occurrence.
7 Replace All — replaces every occurrence of the text that is specified in the Find box

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You can also expand the search range to find text on all document pages, a range of pages, or specific pages. Conversely, you can limit the search to only currently selected objects. For more information, see To set the search range.

To find and replace text properties

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1 Click Edit Find and Replace.
2 In the Find and Replace inspector, choose Replace Objects from the list box at the top of the inspector.
3 Enable the Text properties option.
4 In the Find area, do any of following:
• Enable the Font check box and choose the font to find.
• Enable the Weight check box, and choose the text weight to find.
• Enable the Size check box, and choose the text size to find.
5 In the Replace area, do any of following:
• Enable the Font check box and choose a replacement font.
• Enable the Weight check box, and choose a replacement text weight.
• Enable the Size check box, and choose a replacement text size.
6 Click Find, and click any of the following:
• Find Next > or Find Previous < to scroll through text objects that meet the search criteria.
• Find All to select all text objects that meet the search criteria.
• Replace to replace the properties of the selected text object.
• Replace All to replace the color of all text objects that meet the search criteria.

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You can also expand the search range to find text on all document pages, a range of pages, or specific pages. Conversely, you can limit the search to only currently selected objects. For more information, see To set the search range.

To edit text

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1 Click the Text tool .
2 Perform a task from the following table.

 

To
Do the following
Edit artistic text
Click in the artistic text.
Edit paragraph text
Click in the text frame.

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Text that has been converted to curves cannot be edited.

To convert text

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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.

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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.

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

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The features documented in the Help are available in the full version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2021. Some features may not be available in this version of the product.