Motion 5 - Finding and Replacing Text

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Finding and Replacing Text

The Find and Replace window lets you locate and change a word (or a set of characters)
in a Motion project. You can search in a selected text object, or in all text objects. This
tool is useful for changes to long-form text objects, such as credit rolls.

To use Find and Replace

1

Choose Edit > Find and Replace (or press Command-F).

The Find and Replace window appears.

2

In the Find field, enter the text to search for; in the Replace Field enter the replacement
text.

3

Select an option from the “Search in” pop-up menu:

• To search the selected text, choose Selected Text Object.

• To search all text, choose All Text Objects in Project.

4

Do one of the following:

• To search for the Find text, press Enter, or click Next; to find the previous occurrence,

click Previous.

• To replace all occurrences of the Find text, click Replace All.

Note: To undo an operation performed in the Find and Replace window, click in the
Canvas to make it active, then choose Edit > Undo Text Replace (or press Command-Z).

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Do one of the following:

• To replace the current selection, click Replace.

• To replace the current selection and immediately find the next occurrence of the Find

text, click Replace & Find.

The Find and Replace window contains the following controls:

Find:

Enter the text to search for in this field.

Replace:

If performing a find-and-replace operation, enter the replacement text in this

field.

Search in:

Use this pop-up menu to set the type of search operation to be performed.

There are two options:

Selected Text Object: Performs the search or search-and-replace operation on only the

selected text object.

All Text Objects in Project: Performs the search or search-and-replace operation on all

text objects in the project.

Match case:

Select this checkbox to search for words that match the capitalization of the

words entered in the Find field. When this checkbox is not selected, the search ignores
capitalization.

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Whole words:

Select this checkbox to search for whole words. When this checkbox is

not selected, the search finds the specified text when it’s contained anywhere within
words.

Loop search:

Select this checkbox to have the search continue from the beginning of

the text after reaching the end of the text. When Selected Text Object is chosen from the
“Search in” pop-up menu, the search loops back to the beginning of the selected text
object. When All Text Objects in Project is chosen from the “Search in” pop-up menu, the
search loops back to the first text object in the project.

Replace All:

Click this button to replace all occurrences of the text in the Find field with

the text in the Replace field. If there is no Replace text, this button is not available.

Replace:

Click this button to replace the text selected in the Canvas or Text Inspector

with the text in the Replace field. If no text is selected, this button is not available.

Replace & Find:

Click this button to replace the text selected in the Canvas or Text

Inspector with the text in the Replace field, then find the next instance of the text in the
Find field. If no text is selected, this button is not available.

Previous/Next:

Use these buttons to jump to the previous or next instance of the text

entered in the Find field.