Universal Search-and-Replace
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Global Find & Replace Across Entire Project Is Missing
G
Gentle Prawn
Problem
Novelcrafter currently does not provide a way to perform global find & replace across an entire project.
For long-form writers, renaming a character or correcting a term requires manually editing each individual scene or exporting the text to an external editor.
This is a fundamental writing workflow issue, not an advanced feature request.
Why this matters
Renaming characters, locations, or concepts is a normal and unavoidable part of the writing process
Even experienced writers frequently revise names mid-draft
Without global replace, Novelcrafter becomes dependent on external editors for basic text maintenance
This breaks immersion and workflow, especially for writers who want to stay within Novelcrafter
Expected behavior
One of the following would already be sufficient:
Global Find & Replace with scope = Project
A confirmation-based “Replace All across project” action
Even a simple, non-regex implementation would be acceptable
Safety confirmations and undo history would be welcome, but the absence of any project-wide replace makes long-form editing unnecessarily difficult.
Summary
Global Find & Replace is a basic requirement for long-form writing tools.
Adding it would significantly improve usability and reduce the need for external editors.
D
Drab Crow
Absolutely need universal "find" and "find and replace" features. I hope this is coming soon. Scrivener has it. So should Novelcrafter.
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Search and Replace
H
Historical Wildfowl
It would be useful to have a serch and replace function eg to change names of character/places etc and also to find text within the prose when going through edits as you might in Word.
L
Lagoon Bee
Desperately need this. Things change often particularly during revision. It's a huge time waster to hunt for words that must be changed. UPVOTE
A
Actual Marmot
Find - Replace is cruicial - UPVOTE
T
Technical Salmon
search and replace is an absolutely necessary tool when doing revisions. UPVOTE
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Search and replace upvote!
R
Raspberry Caribou
Search and replace upvote!!!
S
Soft Piranha
We definitely need this one. I change
names all the time. Especially when revising. Absolute must-have for
me.
C
Consistent Camel
I definitely think that there should be a search and replace, but I also really think that an advanced mode with REGEX would be really useful.
R
Revolutionary Swordtail
Plus one! What would also be cool would be a feature that could rename a Codex entry wherever it appeared (but I’d want find/replace as a separate function as well). That would let us change the name of a character easily, but also easily find every instance of “like a physical blow” and deal with them appropriately.
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