Find and Replace Rules

Find and Replace rules search for a combination of text and formatting, and replace it with text (or no text) and/or Author-it character or paragraph styles. The Importer processes these rules in the order specified in the Profile, which then affects what the following Find/Replace rules can find. They can also affect what the Formatting rules can find.

These rules are ideal for removing empty paragraphs, or replacing a frequently used chunk of text with a variable value.

Find what

Defines the text to be found. Find supports the following special characters:

Formatting

Determines if the rule searches for character or paragraph formatting, the name of the style (optional) to be found, and any additional formatting.

Match Case

Determines if the text to be found must have the same case (CAPITALS, Title Case, Sentence case, lower case) as the text you typed.

Whole Word

Determines if the text to be found is restricted to a whole word (not part of a word). You will usually leave this checkbox blank so that you can type in a word and find most variants of it - for example, if you type "author", you could also find "authors" and "authoring".

Replace with

Defines the text you want to replace the original text with.

Paragraph style

Defines the paragraph style you want to replace the original formatting with.