Edit/Replace just in Selected Text?

Is there any way to select a block of text and go an edit/replace operation ONLY in that text, not the entire worksheet?
(Other than doing a prompted one and stopping once one leaves the selected text.)

I don't know how many times I've looked at that dialog box... :)

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Try Print Selection
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I opened Pages and used its help menu and came up with this. It does not specifically mention anything about choosing just 1 paragraph or text box, but I hope it helps you none the less.
+Finding and Replacing Text+
+You can find every instance of a word or phrase in your document, and optionally change it to something else.+
+Here are ways to find and replace text:+
+Choose Edit > Find > Find, click Simple or Advanced to set up find/replace criteria, and then click a button to conduct find/replace operations.+
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+Advanced: In addition to typing Find and Replace text, you can set up additional find/replace criteria.+
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+Replace: Replaces the current selection with the replacement text.+
+Replace & Find: Replaces the current selection with the replacement text and immediately finds the next occurrence of the Find text.+
+Next or Previous: Finds the next or previous occurrence of the Find text.+
+Use the other commands on the Edit > Find submenu.+
+Find Next or Find Previous: Finds the next or previous occurrence of the current Find text.+
+Use Selection for Find: Finds the next occurrence of the selected text.+
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Hi,
It is very difficult to select text on these symbian 3 phones and belle. Can anyone please help me with this problem.
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I'm trying to edit a 70-page PDF, and would like to select text using the Replace Selected Text tool, then type in the correct text in the edit balloon.
This works if, each and every time, I select text, then mouse up to the menu bar, choose Tools > Comment & Markup > Text Edits > Replace Selected Text.
It seems to me that I used to be able to make this choice, and then the Text tool would remain Replace Selected Text until I made another choice to use another tool, rather than, as it now does, revert back to the plain Text Edits tool when I finish typing in the replacement text, which does not replace selected text.
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How do I get InDesign 2 or 3 to underline just the individual words selected and NOT the spaces?
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Unfortunately, with the normal "Find" function, the "character" wildcard also seems to find spaces, and there isn't a "whole word" wildcard, so this won't work in CS2 or CS3.
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1. UIComponent uiComponent = facesContext.getViewRoot().findComponent(componentId);
This code line is not used at all in your method. So it seems you can get rid of it
2. "Component = AdfPage.PAGE.findComponentByAbsoluteId('" + componentId + "'); Component.focus();");
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as it is better coding practice to have variable names starting with a lower case letter and being flagged with the "var" identifier
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