- [Instructor] Of course you can change any text
in your document at any time,
but what if you have a lot of texts
and it's hard to find the thing you want to change?
Or maybe you need to quickly change several things at once?
For that, you can use the find and replace commands.
First, I can find text in a document.
If you're working on Windows, you can go to the home ribbon,
then over on the far right side,
you can click the find option
or use the keyboard shortcut, which is Control + F.
That opens up this panel over on the left,
where you can search for a word
or a phrase in your document.
I'll search for employee and hit return.
Every time that word appears in a document,
it is highlighted.
You can also browse through the results of this panel
if you're looking for a specific item.
When you're finished,
you can just click the X in this panel to close it.
Okay, let's see how that works on a Mac.
If you're on Mac, you could click this search button
near the top right corner,
or you can go to the edit menu then to find,
and then choose find from the sub menu
or use the keyboard shortcut Command + F,
either way it opens up this search field near the top right
where you can search in the word
or phrase that you're looking for.
Then you can use these arrow buttons
to go to the next or previous one.
When you're finished,
you can click the X in this search field to reset.
Okay, but what if you want to replace a word
in your document?
Well, let's start back on Windows.
Here on Windows, once again I'll go to the home ribbon
and on the far right side,
I can click on the option for replace,
and what I'll need to do is type what I want to find
in this field.
It already has the most recent thing I was searching for,
which was the word employee, that's great.
Then I'll go to this field
and type what I want to replace it with.
And in this case, I'm going to type in a phrase, team member,
then I'll click find next.
It finds the first example of that word
that I'm searching for, and I could click replace,
and I can do that to replace items one at a time.
Or if I'm feeling confident,
I can just click replace all to replace all of them at once.
So I'll do that and that's done, so I'll click OK,
and then I can close this panel.
So now everywhere I had the word employee in my document,
it has been replaced with the phrase team member.
I can see an example of that right here.
It also includes plural forms.
So are replaced every instance of employees
with team members, like I see right here.
Okay, so let's see how that works on a Mac.
Here on the Mac, we'll go to the edit menu,
then to find then to replace.
That opens up this pin on the left,
so in the first field,
I'm going to type in the word or phrase
that I want to search for, and then in the next field,
I'm going to type in what I want to replace it with,
which will be that phrase team member.
Now I could go through here and replace them one by one,
or I could just click replace all,
and it replaces all instances of that word.
I'll just click OK here,
and now as I scroll through the document,
you can see where it replaced the word employee
with the word team members.
So if there's something that appears in your document a lot
and you need to change it in the future,
find and replace may be very useful.