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Finding and replacing text (Photoshop)


    You can search for a single character, a word, or group of words. Once you find what you're looking for, you can change it to something else.

To find and replace a word:

  1. Select the layer that contains the text you want to find and replace.
  2. Choose Edit > Find and Replace.
  3. In the Find What box, type or paste the text you want to find. To change the text, type the new text in the Change To text box.
  4. Select Case Sensitive if you want to search for a word or words that exactly match the case of the text in the Find What text box. For example, a search for "PrePress" will not find "Prepress" or "PREPRESS."
  5. Select Whole Word Only if you want to disregard the search text if it is embedded within a larger word. For example, if you are searching for "any" as a whole word, "many" will be disregarded.
  6. Click Find Next to begin the search.
  7. Click the button that reflects what you want to do next.
    • Change replaces the found text with the revised text. To repeat the search, select Find Next.
    • Change/Find replaces the found text with the revised text and then searches for the next occurrence.
    • Change All searches for and replaces all occurrences of the found text.