TIP: Clean slate for find/change

Hi,
Sharing a little tip I just thought of. Very straightforward and
obvious, but quite useful, and I haven't noticed it mentioned elsewhere.
If you're doing a lot of find/replace, you'll repeatedly need to remove
all selections and start with a clean slate (nothing in the find/replace
fields, clear all formatting).
It seemed to me for a while that we're missing a "Clear All" button in
the find/replace box.
So the answer is simple: clear everything, all options, etc., and save
it as a find/replace query.
Now whenever you need a clean slate for find/save, just select that query.
It's working nicely for me!
Happy new year,
Ariel

I was going to stay out of this, but find I can't. Sometimes it seems to me that scripters see everything as being better solved through scripting.
I actually think Ariel's observation about saving a blank query is quite brilliant, and I have to agree that there are times, and plenty of users like me who don't use a KB hortcut to access find change, where users will find having the saved blank query much faster than any other method of clearing the dialog. Both methods have their place, but I find it disingenuous to say that Jongware's scriptlet "solves" the case where you want to keep the old values -- it actually complicates things as you then must remember if you are to run the KB shortcut, or use the menu, to acieve the desired result.
I think it would be far better to say that this, like many things in ID, can be accomplished in more than one way, and that they way you do it may be different at different times, and that the mehod of choice is exactly that, a choice subject to the user's own preference.

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