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Old 05-16-2015, 06:54 PM   #1
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As I'm going through a book that has page numbers scattered throughout using regex I find myself wishing once again that there was a way to count the matches before starting the replacement.

Once I do a replace all it quickly tells me how many instances are replaced so this information must be rather easy to access.
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As I'm going through a book that has page numbers scattered throughout using regex I find myself wishing once again that there was a way to count the matches before starting the replacement.

Once I do a replace all it quickly tells me how many instances are replaced so this information must be rather easy to access.
Right Click the search box, save current search, click on the "Count All" button in saved searches.

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Right Click the search box, save current search, click on the "Count All" button in saved searches.

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Or just press Ctrl+N without saving the current search.
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Or just press Ctrl+N without saving the current search.
never knew that - I wonder why it's not in context menu?

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Or even find the option in the Menu toolbar... either way, no need to save the search, it won't be cleared.
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Thank you both. Ctrl+N is so easy to check!

It makes things easier when you can see approximately how many changes will be made before going ahead and doing a Replace All.
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