Find and replace text in confluence

[Igor Popov]

How can I replace text in a confluence page? The tutorial refers to the blue toolbar at the top with the search button, but there is no such toolbar anymore?

[Diego · Accepted solution]

Hey, thanks for becoming part of our community, @Igor Popov !

Now, let me try to address your question. You said that that the “search and replace” function is not available for you when using the new editor.

This is correct. In our new editing experience, the find function was removed since it is provided by all browsers that are compatible with Confluence.

The good news is that its return is planned on our Roadmap document. Here, take a look:

• [Confluence Cloud] [Confluence Cloud Editor Roadmap]

This feature request is also reported here:

• [Confluence Cloud] [CONFCLOUD-66370] [Replace, from Find & Replace function, in the new editor]

I encourage you to go into that report to vote and watch it. Voting helps increasing the report visibility and watching will keep you up to date with everything there! Let our teams know how important this is for your environment.

To try and address your question “Why my user interface is different?”, I can show you the following:

• [Atlassian Community] [Try out the new editing experience]
• [Confluence Cloud] [Confluence Editing Improvements]

Your interface is different due to the fact that you are running the new Confluence editing experience, the Fabric Editor.  

Let us hear your thoughts Igor! Looking forward to your reply.

[Igor Popov]

Hi @Diego 

Thank you for solving the mystery. Chrome doesn't have "search and replace" function by default which means I have to install a third-party extension to compensate for the removed functionality. 

How can I switch to the old editor as I am not happy to use an inferior interface compare to others? This also makes it very confusing when I try to follow how-to guides...

[laura_white]

@Diego Find + Replace is an important tool. Can we please add it to the new editor?

[Felisha Booker]

agreed.

[Alberto Ferrari]

This is plain incredible.

[Alex Sarafian]

Hi @Diego

Having run into this issue, I also want to mention the the browser doesn't process the content of macros. I remember from the past, I could change with confluenc's find and replace the text in a `/status` macro for example.

[Iain Davidson]

Would love to see the feature "search and replace text string" in Confluence also.  I have a 100+ replacements in the text, now I have to do it manually? Yikes.

[tfetner]

crazy Atlassian train.... one of the most basic technical writing functions and it has been removed?  Having to edit dozens x dozens of import gremlins one at a time.

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

@tfetnerplus the Find and Replace only ever worked at the page level. Wasn't good enough for us so we built this Find and Replace app that works at the space level.

It's also one of the features of our suite of apps called Easy Toolbox.

[Iain Davidson]

FYI, in the latest version of Confluence Cloud, now has the search/replace feature off the editing tool bar. Look for the magnify glass tool icon, right after the "Insert Elements" tool.

In Chrome, Ctrl + f , brings up Chrome's version of "Find..."  and Ctrl + h brings up "Chrome History" feature.

[Ollie Guan]

Hi @Igor Popov ,

You can find/replace in the upper right corner of the page.

[Igor Popov]

I don't have this button in my confluence cloud, please see my screenshot

http://tinyurl.com/y33qmz8l

[Igor Popov]

@Ollie Guan Why my user interface is different?

[Michael Litner]

Press Ctrl-f and then this "Find&Replace" box will appear

[Nikolay Rayanov]

In chrome it doesn't appear. :)

[Michael Litner]

This is the "search and replace" box that was automatically opened on Chrome, Wind 10

https://ibb.co/GnQ4HtQ

[Jeffry Gamba]

Have you tried using "ctrl + f"?

[Igor Popov]

yep, first thing

[Jeffry Gamba]

@Igor Popov , okay. Because if the ctrl + f is not working, you can try by doing that in the source code of your confluence page. If you can see an "<>" icon in your page, click it and then you can do the find and replace. 

Are you using Confluence Server?? or cloud?

[Nenad Ikonomovski]

Thank you, @Jeffrey Gamba! That worked!

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

We needed to make bulk changes across our cloud docs space, example when Atlassian changed now something is named or works so we created Find and Replace by Easy Apps.

Anyone can use it, pretty simple, no need to understand CQL, which I don't personally know.

We ended up rebuilding it so it works for huge spaces. Turns out some cloud spaces are enormous, like an old server one (might have migrated).

[Stavros_Rougas_EasyApps]

Find and Replace is also part Space Content Manager (label manager...). A suite of tools in one app.

[Jessie Wang_ScriptRunner_The Adaptavist Group]

If you have ScriptRunner for Confluence Cloud you can find and replace text across your entire space with one click.

There's a script you can copy and paste into the Script Console and run. It is available here: https://library.adaptavist.com/entity/find-and-replace-text-across-space

If you want to try ScriptRunner we offer a 30 day free trial in the Marketplace.

[Lloyd Jones]

For Mac users:
"command" + "f" while in editing mode will surface the function to search & replace text.

[Phil Speer]

In the newer editor, it seems like you can find and replace on a single page using ctrl + h.
Hope this helps!

[Iain Davidson]

FYI, ctrl + h brings up "Chrome history" in chrome.

[Nikolay Rayanov]

I cannot find this functionality on Confluence Cloud as well. Is it still on Roadmap? I want to edit multiple spaces and replace specific words with other words.

[Phil Speer]

It seems to work when editing a single page. Try ctrl + h
Not very intuitive, but it worked for me!

[Nikolay Rayanov]

Thank you, Phil!

Unfortunately, Ctrl + H opens my browser history. I need to do a replacement on multiple pages. On a single page, it's pretty straightforward with the default browser search.