Organizing and Editing Records - FileMaker Pro 13: The Missing Manual - page 77

Since FileMaker has fields and records to worry about, though, its Find/Replace dialog box
is a little more complicated than what you may be familiar with. Luckily, the concepts are
simple, as shown in Figure 2-11 . The Find/Replace dialog box lets you search for a snippet
of text in one field or all fields of one record or all found records. It can also replace every
occurrence of that text with something new—either one at a time, or all at once.
NOTE
Don't confuse Find/Replace with Find mode. Find/Replace is for finding specific characters in one
or more fields and one or more records. Find mode is for finding records . You'll probably use Find
mode much more often than Find/Replace. For the full story, see the box on Find with Replace vs.
Find/Replace .
Figure 2-11. Find/Replace uses the same dialog box both to find text and to find and replace text. If
you aren't replacing anything, then don't click any of the Replace buttons. The text you're looking
for goes in the “Find what” text box. If you're replacing it with something new, then type that text
in the “Replace with” text box. (If you want to clear the text, leave the “Replace with” box empty.)
Here's FileMaker's version of Find and Replace:
1. Choose Edit → Find/Replace → Find/Replace .
The Find/Replace dialog box opens, as shown in Figure 2-11 .
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Turning on “Match case” ensures that FileMaker looks for an exact uppercase and lowercase
match. For example, when “Match case” is turned on, “Kite” and “kite” don't come up as a
match. If you turn on “Match whole words only,” FileMaker eliminates partial word
matches. For example, “Drag” matches “Drag” but not “Dragon.”
2. Under “Search across,” select “All records.”