Hi, Prior to Snow Leopard, I used to have to use the mouse-clic (VO-shift-space) instead of VO-space on the Replace All button. Try that and see how it goes.
Later... On 2010-11-20, at 5:07 PM, Jeff Berwick wrote: > I've tried hitting enter and tried using VO - space on the replace all button > but, nothing happens. It is the strangest thing. Something that should be > so simple but, just doesn't work for me at all. > Jeff > > On 2010-11-20, at 12:06 PM, Anne Robertson wrote: > >> 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. >> > > -- > 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. > Tim Kilburn Fort McMurray, AB Canada -- 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.
