Find and replace corrects recurring text from the Bed Editor, rather than one cell or one plate element at a time. It searches two different things, chosen with a scope toggle.
The two scopes
Scope | Searches |
Data | Values held in the design's data table |
Plate Text | Static text placed on the plate design |
Opening it
The Find & Replace button sits at the top right of the bed canvas, below the zoom controls. Cmd/Ctrl + F opens and closes the same panel, and Escape closes it.
This is a Bed Editor tool.
The data table has a separate find and replace of its own, reached with the same Cmd/Ctrl + F while the grid is in edit mode; the Plate Editor has neither.
Steps
Open the design in the Bed Editor
Open Find & Replace with Cmd/Ctrl + F, or with the button on the canvas
Set the scope toggle to Data or Plate Text
Enter the text to find, and the text to replace it with
Step through matches with Enter and Shift + Enter, or the arrow buttons in the panel
Select Replace for the current match, or All for every match
Filtering compared with replacing
The Filter panel narrows which plates are drawn on the canvas and included in an export. It does not narrow a replacement. With a filter active, selecting "Replace all" still rewrites every matching cell in the data table, including rows the filter is hiding.