Find/Replace for Synposes

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I seem to be decision-challenged concerning the names of one character. Her name appears in the synopses as well as the text.

Is there any way to do a global find/replace for text in the synopses?

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Edit->Find->Project Replace. In the window that pops up, make sure that all of the parts you want the replacement applied to are checked (text, notes, synopsis, etc…)

Make a backup first (File->Backup->Backup To…)

3

Yes.

Edit | Find | Project Replace

In the Scope area uncheck everything but the Synopses box (or as appropriate).

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Edit: LOL, guess I had that tab open for a while before I got to it. :laughing:

4

With the helpful image above as reference, I’d HIGHLY recommend you check the “whole word only” checkbox, especially if your character’s name is something short and simple, like “Jo”. If you’ve been consistent about capitalization, you could probably un-check “ignore case” as well for safety. Unless you you want “I was only joking, Sam!” to be transformed into “I was only Elizabethking, Sam!”

5

Does anyone else’s crowd do this, verbing people’s names for some specific idiosyncratic action?

6

Thanks!

7

We use the diminutive “Qwayla” (pronounced kwayler) of the fictitious place name Queenston Lacefield to mean volunteering/helping, a volunteer/helper, to volunteer/help:

We also use “jon/jonning” to mean a cyclist/cycling.

One day I mistook a random cyclist for the village mamil Jon. Now all cyclists are jons.