3.11 Other Edit Commands

• The Annotate subject command pops up a text edit dialog   in which you can type arbitrary text to annotate the subject. See section 2.5 for using the text edit dialogs.
• With the Find menu entry in the Text menu you call   a dialog in which you can search for text in the diagram. The find dialog is described in section 2.5.3. From this dialog you can find the next text or find all texts that matches the string to find. In the first case, the first shape that is found is selected and the scrollbars of the main window are moved to center the shape in the main window. When you click Find Next again, the following shape is selected (round-robin). When you choose Find All, all shapes that contain a string that matches are selected.
• With the Replace menu entry in the Text menu you call   a dialog in which you can replace texts in the diagram. The replace dialog is described in section 2.5.3. It has a find next command that works the same as in the find dialog. Furthermore, the replace dialog has a replace next and a replace all button. Replace next means that for the next shape (the shape that is found with find next) all their text strings that match are substituted by the string to replace (that is the second string filled in in the dialog). In the case of Replace all this happens to all shapes in one command (global substitution).

  Note that find and replace work on entire shapes at the same time. But keep in mind that a shape could have multiple text labels and each individual text label could match the string to find or the string to replace multiple times (at least when you look for a substring). When you want to find or replace within a single text label or table cell, you should load that text label first in the out-line text editor and then do a find or replace within that dialog.

  Note also that you can fill an empty string for the string to find in both dialogs. An empty string matches only the text shapes that are empty. You can also fill in an empty string in the replace with text field, providing that the string to find field is not empty.