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Finding and replacing all types of content - Flash Professional Tutorial
From the course: Flash Professional: Shortcuts
Finding and replacing all types of content
Whether you want to refactor some code or simply change the text in a text field, Flash's Find and Replace command can speed up your workflow by allowing you to quickly make massive changes across an entire FLA. So I have some dummy text here just to show you the power of Flash's Find and Replace. I like to use the keyboard shortcut Command+F or Ctrl+F to launch the Find and Replace window. You can find that under the Edit menu if you like menu commands. Note that you can search in your Current Document or just the Current Scene, and you can choose what to search for: Text or Font, Color, Symbol, Sound, Video or Bitmap. You can do all types of text to search through. Note that at the bottom of the screen you can choose those checkboxes, whether you want to replace things in ActionScript or Strings in ActionScript or things that are whole words or match the case. We really have a lot of options. Let's start by replacing just the first word in our text which is Lorem, L-O-R-E-M. So type…
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The Break Apart command3m 35s
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The Distribute To Layers command1m 32s
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Zooming shortcuts2m 13s
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Copying and pasting shortcuts1m 34s
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The Swap and Duplicate Symbol commands1m 50s
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Shortcuts with graphic symbols2m 29s
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Editing multiple frames2m 9s
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Finding and replacing all types of content3m 31s
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Creating custom code snippets2m 26s
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Using frame keyboard shortcuts2m 5s
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The Align panel2m 16s
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Fast masking1m 38s
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Shortcuts for rulers and guides2m 31s
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The essential toolbar shortcuts2m
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Exporting a movie clip or graphic symbol animation5m 39s
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Importing sequences of images2m 42s
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Snap To Guides and Snap To Objects3m 29s
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Enabling buttons and ActionScript without testing the movie2m 18s
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Muting sounds1m 21s
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Using the History panel to create custom shortcuts3m 36s
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