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Change Dialog
Use to replace one string of text with another.
┌────────────── Change ─────────────┐
│                                   │  Enter string or use
│ Find What: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ─── string already here.
│                                   │
│ Change To: ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒▒ ─── Enter replacement.
│                                   │
│ ▒ Upper/Lowercase ▒ Whole Word ──── Select search type.
│                                   │
│ <Find and Verify>   <Change All> ── Choose whether to
│                                   │  review changes or
└───────────────────────────────────┘  make all changes.
 
Select Upper/Lowercase for a case-sensitive match,
or Whole Word to exclude matches within words or strings.
Whole-word searches recognize a match only when the target
text is surrounded by blanks, punctuation, or other special
characters. Replacement text can be 127 characters long.