Find / Replace (L)

This tool allows you tocan find or replace any text present inof the genealogy.genealogy content.

Description

TheIn windowthe isfirst usedtwo todrop-down menus of this Find/Replace window, you indicate the text to search forfor, and the text by which to replace it in the first two drop-down menus.it.

Previous searches are stored in these drop-down menus.

The two check boxes on the right allowcan yoube used to limit the searchsearch: by enforcing the respect ofmatch upper and lower case,case orletters ifexactly, theand search mustonly befor limited to whole words.words.

Then youYou can indicatealso provide entity and property filters using the two large buttons.buttons described below. This makes it possible to limit the search and replacement to only the entities and properties checked in the two lists that appear.

The number in parenthesis indicates the number of corresponding elements in all in the genealogy.

Filter on entities	Filter on properties

The Limit to advancedmain selection check box is used to limit the search to the entities resulting from the advancedAdvanced search function.view. See the Advanced Search sectionpage for more details.

The search results are then displayed one by one and you can browse them all with the Next and Previous buttons.

The Replace button doesreplaces the text replacements one at a time, while the Replace All button doesreplaces all thematches replacementsin atone once.go.

The window displayed at the start of this page is the one corresponding to the Find and Replace function. ItThe thereforeFind includesfunction andoes not include the additional line and two buttons which are used forin replacement.the Replace Function.

Usage

The main need covered by this tool is to modify a data ofin your genealogy globally, and in one go.go.

The search function searches for a text in the active Gedcom file. This result may be sufficient if you do not want to modify your data. You can access the Find toolfunction alone via the Edit menu or the Ctrl + F shortcut.

Note that Ancestris also offers two other complementary research tools:
(1) General search which browsesscans all open Gedcom files and the application.
(2) Advanced Searchsearch which allowsis a multi-criteria search inwithin the active Gedcom file.genealogy.

If you want to globally change one word to another, or change a datedate, everywhere,a place name, or whatever,whatever else, the Find and Replace tool is very useful. You can access it via the Edit menu or via the shortcut Ctrl + R.

Fill in your text to replace, the text you want to replace it with and the results should already appear.

You can then refine your search using the criteria or filters described above.

As soon as you check a filter, it takes a little time to refresh the results.

If no results appear, check the filters, they are stored from one search to the next.

You can then perform the replacements one by one by scrolling through the data found.

Customization

The customization that exists concerning this tool is the possibility of memorizing the search criteria and the filters from one time to the next.