Find/replace troubleshooting
Can’t access Find/Replace menu commands
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Your access privileges don’t give you access to the menus.
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Find Selected is dimmed because you didn’t first select any data in the database.
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Find Again or Replace & Find Again is dimmed because you didn’t first specify any data in the Find what box.
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You are in Preview mode. Switch to Browse, Find or Layout mode.
Can’t find the specified data
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Check your spelling of the data in the Find what box.
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Match case was selected. FileMaker Pro finds only the data that matches the capitalization specified in the Find what box.
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Match whole words only was selected. FileMaker Pro finds only the data that are whole words, including spaces and punctuation.
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Forward or Backward search direction was selected. FileMaker Pro searches only from the current cursor position in the specified direction.
Can’t replace the specified data
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In Browse mode, you can’t replace data in calculation or summary fields, or in fields protected by access privileges or field formatting.
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In Find mode, you can’t replace data in fields protected by field formatting.
Tip  You can find/replace data in fields protected by the Field Behavior option Allow field to be entered by using the following script steps or buttons to enter a field prior to performing a find/replace operation:
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Perform Find/Replace script step or button
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Open Find/Replace script step or button
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In Find mode, summary and global fields are ignored.
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You can't replace data in locked layout objects.
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You can’t replace data in fields that are formatted as pop-up menus, radio buttons, or checkboxes. These fields will be counted and reported as skipped at the end of a Replace All operation.
Related topics 
Finding and replacing data
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