Find and Replace Styles - Duxbury Braille Translator V11.2

Find and Replace a Code or Style in Duxbury Braille Translation Software

As you might expect for a text editing and markup program like Duxbury, you can utilise a Find and Replace feature to replace text just as you would in MS Word. However, what is less well known, is that you can use the same Find and Replace dialog box to find and replace Duxbury styles and codes. Let's try it:

Finding and Replacing Duxbury Styles and Codes

1. Open an existing document in the DBT and launch your code view with ALT F3.
2. Call up the Find and Replace dialog box with the F6 key.
3. With the cursor in the Text to find: edit field, use the Style manual input hotkey of CONTROL F9 or, if you are looking for a Code, use F9 on its own.
4. When you use either CONTROL F9 or F9 the appropriate style of brackets is automatically inserted; angle brackets for Styles and square brackets for Codes. All you do now is type in the relevant Style or Code syntax, such as h1. or /acronym or g1 and so on.


NOTE: Remember to run your Find and Replace operation for your Style start and end tags. It is easy to get caught out and find and replace the Style start tags yet forget to change the end tags too. The end tag is the same as the start tag except for a forward slash / placed at the beginning of the tag text.

5. When you have completed the Text to find: information, press TAB to move to the Replace with: edit field. Using the same F9 or CONTROL F9 method as before, specify the Style or Code you need as a replacement for the Style or Code in the Text to find field.
6. Press TAB to move on through a series of checkboxes (toggle them on and off with the SPACEBAR if required) to eventually focus on the OK button. Press the SPACEBAR again to confirm and run the Find and Replace operation.
7. If the details have all been input correctly, a message box will pop up with the first instance of the text to find selected. You can TAB through the four buttons and activate them as necessary with the SPACEBAR. These Replace? message box buttons are:
• Yes (ALT Y) - Choose this to replace the currently selected instance of the Style or Code only.
• No (ALT N) - Choose this to ignore the currently selected instance of the Style or Code only.
• All (ALT A) - Choose this to replace all instances of the selected Style or Code.
• Stop (ALT S) - Choose this to stop the Find and Replace immediately.
8. Continue to work through the instances of the Style or Code you need to change. When there are no more found, Duxbury will indicate the end of the operation with a small summary window showing how many changes were made.

And that's it! Much easier than laboriously changing every Style or Code manually isn't it?