Topic: editing
Hey All - I've got about 25 chapters up and have changed a couple of character and place names. Would love to edit that here, but what a job! Do any of you know if there is a "find and replace" option?
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Hey All - I've got about 25 chapters up and have changed a couple of character and place names. Would love to edit that here, but what a job! Do any of you know if there is a "find and replace" option?
If you're using Google Chrome, you can use its Find function to highlight all instances of a word in a chapter, then replace them one at a time. You have to be in TNBW edit mode for your chapter. The other way is copy your new chapter from your manuscript into the same chapter here in the site. Use Ctrl-c to copy (eg from a Word document), open your site chapter in edit mode, hit ctrl-a in the text box to select the entire old version of the chapter, then ctrl-v to paste in the chapter from Word that contains all your changes. Then save it. Hope that makes sense.
I should have added that the two ways I suggested have to be done one chapter at a time.
Thanks, Dirk! I can do it easily in chrome, but to move it here is a pain. I have a horrible time formatting here! Was just hoping for the same "find and replace" here on site that Chrome has. Ah, well! Thanks for taking a moment, anyway!
I took a look at one of your chapters. They appear to be formatted like everyone else's, so formatting shouldn't be a problem, unless I've misunderstood something. Once you open a specific chapter here on the site for editing, an edit box appears around the text. That's when you use Chrome's Find feature to mark all of the text items that match your search. It actually looks inside the text box for all instances of the search words and highlights them so you can them quickly. Unfortunately, you then have to manually change each one, but you shouldn't have to reformat anything, unless it's to manually apply italics, bold, etc. I don't know of a find-and-replace feature, although I've never looked for one. For minor name changes, it should go relatively quickly.
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