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To the left of the search area is the Find/Replace toggle. Select Replace when you want to replace the target
string with an alternate string throughout the text. The Replace All button is dangerous and lacks intelligence.
But the Preview option can display a list of hits similar to the one shown in Figure 4.10. The area in the middle
of the list displays toggle switches that enable and disable replacement for each hit. In a large project, it can take
a while to scan through every hit, but this option does allow you to use Replace selectively.
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If you click the magnifying class icon, you see further advanced search options that control case matching and
make it possible to use regular expressions in searches.
FIGURE 4.10
Using the selective replace feature, you can toggle each switch to enable or disable replacing that hit.
