Hello Jeff, I use find and replace in both TextEdit and Pages a great deal with no trouble. Having clicked on REplace All, did you navigate left to find out how many items had been replaced? Also, did you check whether you had it set to ignore case or not?
I really can't understand why it wouldn't work for you. Cheers, Anne On 20 Nov 2010, at 15:11, Jeff Berwick wrote: > Hi all, > > The ability to search and replace in Textedit seems to allude me...It looks > like a simple enough process but, when I enter the text to search for and the > text to replace it with, and then press "replace all", nothing seems to > happen. Then, if I press "replace" a few times, it replaces the same > occurrence several times so I end up with the replaced text multiple times > for the original search item. > > So, if I search for <div> and replace it with <p> it might come out like: > > Original > <div>some text here</div> > > After: > <p><p><p>some text here</div> > > Any help to unwrap this mystery would be helpful. > > Thx, > Jeff > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
