Working With Properties
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Scroll down to view all of the available button properties that can be used as search criteria.
Click the minus symbol (-) next to the General and States headings to collapse the sections. Click
the plus symbol (+) to expand the views.
To select all General button properties, click in the checkbox next to the General heading; to select
all State-oriented button properties, click in the checkbox next to the States heading.
3. In the Search Scope area, select either Entire Panel or Current Page.
If the scope of the search is set to Entire Panel, the Select All button is disabled, in which case you
can use the Find Next button to cycle through the pages that contain buttons whose values match
the search criteria.
If the scope of the search is set to Current Page, use the Find Next button to search the current page
only, based on the specified criteria and scope.
4. When the first instance of the criteria is found, the Find In Page dialog is compressed to only show the
buttons that satisfy the search criteria, and the first button found that satisfies the search criteria is selected
in the Design View.
Select Find Next to continue the search.
Select Select All to close the Find dialog and select every button that meets the criteria.
The program will inform you if no buttons are found that match the search criteria.
Searching and Replacing Properties
Use the Find and Replace dialog to find and (optionally) replace any property value with another value of your
choosing. You can specify the scope of the search to either the currently open Page only, or across the entire
Project.
To search and replace properties:
1. Select Edit > Find & Replace (or click the toolbar button) to open the Find and Replace dialog
(FIG. 324).
2. In the Search Criteria table, select the button properties to use as the search criteria. You can include any
General or State button property as search criteria. General and State properties are separated into two
sections (labeled as General and States).
Scroll down to view all of the available button properties that can be used as search criteria.
When you select a General as well as a State-oriented search criteria, only buttons
that match the General criteria, and within that set, the states that match the State
criteria will be candidates for the replace operation. For example, if you set the
search criteria to include both the Glow-S border style (a General property) and
yellow as the Fill Color (a State property), only those buttons with a Border Style of
Glow-S are candidates, and within that set of candidates, only those states whose
Fill Color is set to yellow satisfy the search criteria.
FIG. 324 Find and Replace dialog
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