The Logic Behind the Replace Text Function

In the web content industry, editing is definitely a must for both web content writers and editors. And as a web editor, you would inevitably chance upon a writer or two who just happens to misspell a couple of words or so. Sadly, all throughout the article, the writer sticks to the misspelled word. This may just be a typo, but it is significantly daunting for any editor to have to go from one misspelled word to another, just to replace it with the correctly spelled word. Fortunately, there is something that you can do about this to speed things up a bit, and that is to use the Replace Text function.

What exactly does this function do? Just by the name itself, the function is all about replacing particular characters or strings of characters. This is the perfect tool to use when you want to change the word "loose" into the correct word "lose". A common mistake in the English language, a lot of writers out there do use "loose" for the verb form of the word. This should not be the case because "loose" is the adjective form, not the verb form. By using the replace function, you just input the word "loose" in the Find What tab, and then you input the word "lose" in the Replace With tab, and then you are good to go. The tool will then replace all of the words "loose" with "lose".

Best of all, you can also configure how to go about the replacing process. You can do the replacing one at a time, which is also good because there might be instances in the article where the appropriate word would be "loose", and not "lose". But if you are sure that all words should be "lose" and not "loose", then go right ahead and click the Replace All tab, to do the replacing in one swift move.

You can also make use of Text Block Windows, especially when you want to replace particular words or sentences or even blocks of text containing similar instances. These similar instances need not really be exact, but this option is still very much helpful. You can further narrow down the specific replacements via what the target string contains before and after.

Delving further into the matter, you can also check out the options offered by this feature. By default, it does not really matter what case you use when you type the word or words into the Find What box. Whether you type, "Loose", "lOose", or "LoOsE", the tool would still browse the target files for the words "loose", no matter the case. However, if you want to look for "LoOsE" specifically, then you should check the Match Case tab in the options feature so that the tool would find exactly what you designated in the box.

There are really so many ways for you to replace text conveniently. Go ahead and get to know this very useful function because you never know when you might need it yourself.