SEARCH AND REPLACE

### Movable Type User Manual: SEARCH AND REPLACE

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# SEARCH AND REPLACE

You can use Movable Type's search and replace functionality either to search through all of your entries for a particular string, or to replace all instances of a string with another string. IMPORTANT: there is no undo feature, so be careful when you use the replace functionality; because of this you may want to export your Movable Type entries before using replace, for backup purposes.

You have the following options when using search and replace:

- Case Sensitive
  If you would like the search string to be treated in a case-sensitive manner, check the `Case Sensitive` box. This means that the string `foo` will match `foo`, `Foo`, `fOo`, etc.

- Regular Expression Match
  If you would like the search string to be treated as a Perl regular expression, check the `Regular Expression Match`. If you are unsure what this means, you would do best to leave this box unchecked.

- Search fields
  By default, search and replace operates on the `Title`, `Entry Body`, and `Extended Entry Body` fields of each entry in your weblog. You can tune the search and replace to operate on only a subset of these fields by checking and unchecking the `Search fields` boxes.

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