Find /Replace dialog box

Used to search all the text in a DGN file for any sequence of letters and numbers. Opens when Find/Replace Text is chosen from the Edit menu.

Replace Text dialog box

Find

The Find field displays the text element to be located.

Change

The Change option menu contains the following:

• Replace
— Replaces the string in the Find field with the text element in the With field.

• Append
— Adds the text element in the With field to the string.

• Prepend
— Adds the text element in the With field to the beginning of the string.

With

The With field displays the typed text element that replaces the text element in the Find field.

Match Case

If on, finds only text with the same capitalization as the specified text (in other words, a case-sensitive search).

Whole Words

If on, specifies a search for only complete words that match the text element in the Find field. For example, when Whole Words is on, a search for “fill” will not find “filled” or “fillet.”

Reg. Expr.

If on, Reg(ular) Expr(essions) specifies a search for “wild card” characters as listed in the table.

Character	Meaning
c	any non-special character c matches itself
\c	turn off special meaning of character c
^	beginning of line
$	end of line
.	any single character
:a	any alphabetical character [a-z|A-Z]
:d	any digit [0-9]
:n	any alphanumeric character [a-z|A-Z|0-9]
:<space>	A colon followed by a space also matches any punctuation character
[…]	any one of the characters in …; ranges such as a-z are legal
[^…]	any single character not in …; ranges are legal
s*	zero or more occurrences of string s
s+	one or more occurrences of string s
st	string s followed by string t

In Cells

If on, specifies a search for text in cells.

Fractions

If on, specifies a search for fractions.

Find

Clicking the Find button locates the specified text.

Change

Clicking Change replaces the text element in the Find field with the text element from the With field.

Change All

Clicking Change All replaces all the specified text elements in the design file.

Change Fence

Clicking Change Fence replaces the text elements that match the current Fence search criteria.

Change Single

Clicking Single replaces a single text element in the design file, as identified by the user.