Find and replace — Nixt Writer docs

The find bar searches the document’s text, highlights every match, and replaces one match or all of them.

Open the find bar

Do one of these:

Press ⌘F (Ctrl+F on Windows and Linux) while the caret is in the document.
On the Home tab, in the Editing group, click Find and replace.
Click More (three dots) in the title bar, then Find and replace….

The find bar opens above the page with the caret in its search box.

Part	What it does
Find in document	The text to look for.
Up arrow (Previous match)	Selects the previous match.
Down arrow (Next match)	Selects the next match.
Counter	Which match is selected, for example 2 of 7.
Replace with	The replacement text.
Replace	Replaces the selected match (Replace this match).
All	Replaces every match (Replace every match).
× (Close find)	Closes the find bar.

Find text

Open the find bar.
Enter the text to look for in Find in document.

Writer searches whenever the text in the box changes. It highlights every match in amber and selects the first one in the document. The status bar says how many matches there are — for example 7 matches — or No matches for followed by the search text.

To move between matches:

Press Return in the search box, or click the down arrow, for the next match.
Click the up arrow for the previous match.

After the last match, the next match is the first one again.

Searching ignores capitals: “report” finds “Report” and “REPORT”. It matches the text exactly as typed otherwise, including spaces and parts of words.

Replace one match

Find the text as above, and move to the match you want to replace.
Type the new text in Replace with.
Click Replace.

The selected match is replaced, and the highlights and counter clear. To carry on to the next match, enter the search text in Find in document again.

Replace every match

Type the text to find in Find in document.
Type the new text in Replace with.
Click All.

Writer replaces every match in one step. The status bar says Replaced and the number of matches, or Nothing to replace. if there were none.

To take back a replace-all, press ⌘Z (Ctrl+Z on Windows and Linux). One undo restores every replaced match.

Close the find bar

Click the × at the right end of the find bar, or click Find and replace on the Home tab again.

To clear the amber highlights, empty the Find in document box. The highlights also clear after Replace.

What find searches

Find and replace look at the text of the document’s body paragraphs.

Find and replace with track changes on

Replace is recorded as a tracked change, like typing.