Searching & Replacing

The Language Manager provides a tool for searching and replacing strings in the active language. The searching parameters may be set using special dialogs.

Search/replace commands are unavailable if more than one column is selected.

Searching

Set the proper active language and select "Search | Find…" menu item to start searching. The "Find" dialog appears.

Enter the text you wish to search for into Find what field. This field font corresponds to active language font.

Match whole word only – Mark to search for whole words only. Words are delimited with spaces, punctuation marks, brackets, and arithmetic.

Match whole cell only – Mark to search for whole cells. Cancels "Match whole word only" field.

Match case – Mark to perform a case-sensitive search. Otherwise, the search is case insensitive.

Search cyclically – Mark if you want to search cyclically (search from the beginning when you have reached the end).

Direction – Mark the appropriate radio button to set the search direction Down (toward the last row) or Up (toward the first row).

Find Next / Find Prev

The "Search | Find Next" command repeats the previous Find command using all parameters set in the "Find" dialog, including the direction.

The "Search | Find Prev" command does the same but the in the opposite direction.

Replacing

Set the proper active language and select "Search | Replace…" menu item to start searching and replacing. The "Replace" dialog appears.

Enter into Replace with field text that should replace found text.

This field font corresponds to active language font.

Other parameters in the dialog are the same as in the "Find" dialog.

Press the "Replace All" button to close the dialog and replace all text occurrences according to dialog parameters.

Press the "Start" button to perform the operated replacement. A special toolbar with the following buttons appears if the "Find what" text is found:

Find Next – Searches for the next "Find what" text occurrence.

Find Prev – Searches for previous "Find what" text occurrence.

Replace – Replaces last found text with "Replace with" text and search for the next "Find what" text occurrence.

Replace All – Closed dialog and replace all text occurrences according to Replace dialog parameters.

Go to Line Number

If you know the number of the row you want to jump to, it may be easily done by selecting the "Search | Go to Line Number..." menu item. Input the row number in the appeared dialog end and press the "OK" button.

Searching the incorrectly formatted strings

Sometimes translated strings contain format characters that do not correspond to the native string. This feature helps to find all such strings. Select the "Search | Find incorrect formats" menu item. Then select "Search | Find Next" to find the next problem string and "Search | Find Prev" to find the previous one. |