Project Replace Scope

Hi all,

Just a small request: It would be nice if we could use Project Replace over just portions of our Projects, and not have to do the entire thing . . . especially if we know that the words we want to replace only occur in, say, 10 documents out of a hundred. I see this working as follows: By default, Project Replace would scan the entire Project. But, if the user wished, they could — prior to clicking Project Replace — select a number of individual documents. Then, in Project Replace, the user could select either “Include Selected” (for replacing text in just those documents) or “Exclude Selected” (for replacing text in every document in the Project except for those selected). Then, the user performs the replace. This would be an extremely handy feature, and would allow a finer grain of control over doing Project-wide replacements.

—And H.

Hi,

Why not use scrivenings mode for that along with regular Find and Replace? For a handful of documents, that gives you a little more control and you can more easily see what is getting replaced.

All the best,
Keith