Adobe Captivate 9: Awesome "Hidden" Find and Replace Feature

by Kevin Siegel   

While you can use Captivate's Find and Replace feature (located in the Edit menu) to find all kinds of things in a project (including images, animation, and Flash video), I find this feature most useful for quickly replacing words or phrases throughout a project.

 

In the image below, I intend to change the phrase "Watch as" with the word "Select." I have no idea how many changes are going to be made throughout the project, let alone which slides are going to be affected. At this point, I can click Find Next, then Replace, then Find Next again and again until the process is complete.

 

 

 

Wouldn't it be great to know, upfront, how many changes are going to be made? (Heck, I might be adventuresome and click the Replace All button... I'd hate to find out afterwards that I didn't want half of the changes. Yikes!)

 

This is a perfect use-case for the Find All button (shown being clicked above). However, after clicking the Find All button, nothing will appear to change on the Captivate screen. At first glance it seems that the Find All feature doesn't work.

 

But here is where a little investigation does wonders. After clicking the Find All button, stretch the Find and Replace dialog box taller. And BAM! A complete list of the intended changes becomes visible.

 

 

 

Now you'll be able to see (in advance), what's going to change and where. Sure it would be nice if the dialog box expanded on its own, but now that you know what to do, it's a small matter.

 

If you'd like to see the Find All feature in action, check out the Video Demo I created on the IconLogic YouTube channel.

 

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