This command allows you to search the entire contents of the selected Job or Master for the text or tag entered in the Find area. When searching for tags, enter just the three characters in uppercase.  Example: "ENG", not "eng" or "<ENG>".

In addition, the text (but not tags) can be globally replaced with any text entered in the Replace With area. If you leave the Replace With area empty, and click the Replace button, you can remove all instances of the text in the Find area.

The Replace function is permanent and cannot be reversed. Using the Backup button to make a copy of your Job or Master before performing global replacements is strongly advised.

Three check boxes affect the results of your Search/Replace, and they can be used in combination with each other to produce the specific results you want.

• Ignore Lowercase/Uppercase  -- Checking this box determines whether or not your results include text containing letters of different case than those you entered in the Find area. Do not check when searching for tags, but type the three letter tag in uppercase.
  Example -- If you enter "tile" in the Find area and check this box, "TILE" "Tile" and "tile" would all be found and/or replaced. If you did not check this box, the results would match the case you entered, so in this instance only "tile" would be found and/or replaced.

• Search Whole Word -- Checking this box controls whether your search term in the Find area is located only when it appears as a separate word, or if the results contain the term when it appears as part of a word. Check when searching for tags.
  Example -- If you enter "tiles" in the Find area and check this box, your results will not contain any instance of "tile". If this box is not checked, you can find multiple variations for the ending of a word. For instance, if you entered "excava" in the Find area, your results would contain "excavate" "excavation" and "excavating".

• Mark Revisions -- This option only pertains to the Replace function. If you want to use the Revisions function so that ADD and DEL tags are inserted for the results of your Replace action, check this box.
  Example -- If you check the box, enter "white" in the Find area and "black" in the Replace With area, the text in the Sections would be tagged <DEL>white</DEL><ADD>black</ADD>. If this box is not checked, the word "black" would appear in the text where "white" had been without any revisions tagging.)

The Section with results from your Search/Replace is placed in a temporary subfolder called Found Files, located in the SI Explorer under the Job or Master folder. This subfolder will remain only until SpecsIntact is closed. The results of any subsequent Search/Replace in the same Job or Master will replace the previous results in the subfolder.

The files in the Found Files folder are the actual Section files, not copies. Any action -- including deleting or editing -- will affect the Job or Master. If you accidentally delete Sections and need to restore them, they can be found in your system’s Recycle Bin.

Using this function, you can also conduct a secondary search of selected Sections in the Found Files subfolder (to do a secondary search of all the Sections in the Found Files subfolder, use the File menu Search/Replace command).  When executing a secondary search, make certain that the Found Files subfolder is selected, not the Job or Master folder.

Example -- If your original search was for "pipe" you could conduct a secondary search within selected Sections in the Found Files for "concrete" to further narrow the results to include only "concrete pipe."

You can also perform any of the regular functions (such as drag-and-drop, open for editing, printing or deleting) on Sections located in the Found Files folder.

If you want to search only selected Sections in a Job or Master, use the Sections menu Search/Replace command.