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stevencohn / OneMore

A OneNote add-in with simple, yet powerful and useful features
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Search and Replace safety nets #561

Open rd836 opened 2 years ago

rd836 commented 2 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. Office programs typically have options like Find Next, Replace, Replace All, that provide some safety and granularity to the search and replace process.

Presently OneMore is all or nothing, with no way to "see" what it is doing, or intervene.

Describe the solution you'd like Have options similar to Word or Excel, like Find Next, Replace, Replace All.

rd836 commented 2 years ago

A question related to this is if OneMore can also do a substring search either as regular, or give advice how to do it with regex.

E.g., native OneNote can't find the "line" in "online" via its Ctrl-F find operation. This is a major deficiency in OneNote compared to Word.

Having OneMore do this would be one of the most useful features it could provide.

julie777 commented 2 years ago

I agree about the safety net. It seems like adding the ability to prompt for confirmation on each page while showing the page with changes highlighted would be relatively easy and very useful.

I just got bitten yesterday by accidentally clicking the wrong button in an app which had no confirmation and no undo.

stevencohn commented 2 years ago

"... would be relatively easy..." 👀

But I certainly do agree it would be very useful :-)

stevencohn commented 1 year ago

A question related to this is if OneMore can also do a substring search either as regular, or give advice how to do it with regex.

OneMore should be able to handle this on the current page using either raw text or regular expressions.