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signum · 11-01-2012, 04:01 PM

Thanks for your hints. It's not quite that simple to me – the devil is in the details. Let me expose my ignorance for a moment so that others might be able to avoid the problems I encountered.

First off, there is no apparent way (to me, at least) to run a group of Searchs/Replaces just by calling up the Saved Searches with a right-click somewhere in the Find panel at the bottom of the screen, a feature I use very often. Trying to select a group by clicking on it just displays another popup menu with each of the contained single S/Rs displayed. I tried for days to get around that block.

There may be a shorter way, but I found I had to call up what used to be called the Search Editor with ctrl-alt-f or clicking on the Tools tab → Saved Searches. There, the groups and subordinate searches are displayed and you can, indeed, left-click to select the name of an entire group (or an individual search). Click “Load Search”, then click “Replace All” or “Count” or whatever and it will work.

My mistake was expecting running a group to be similar to running a single S/R by right-clicking the Find panel at the bottom of the screen. Further, I hadn't expected to use the Search page below the Tools tab more than once, and even then just to set up and save a new search I'd just invented.

Now I know.

11-01-2012, 04:01 PM	#4
signum Zealot Posts: 119 Karma: 64428 Join Date: Aug 2011 Device: none	Thanks for your hints. It's not quite that simple to me – the devil is in the details. Let me expose my ignorance for a moment so that others might be able to avoid the problems I encountered. First off, there is no apparent way (to me, at least) to run a group of Searchs/Replaces just by calling up the Saved Searches with a right-click somewhere in the Find panel at the bottom of the screen, a feature I use very often. Trying to select a group by clicking on it just displays another popup menu with each of the contained single S/Rs displayed. I tried for days to get around that block. There may be a shorter way, but I found I had to call up what used to be called the Search Editor with ctrl-alt-f or clicking on the Tools tab → Saved Searches. There, the groups and subordinate searches are displayed and you can, indeed, left-click to select the name of an entire group (or an individual search). Click “Load Search”, then click “Replace All” or “Count” or whatever and it will work. My mistake was expecting running a group to be similar to running a single S/R by right-clicking the Find panel at the bottom of the screen. Further, I hadn't expected to use the Search page below the Tools tab more than once, and even then just to set up and save a new search I'd just invented. Now I know.