The Find dialog box allows you to locate text in the active editor window. The Find and Replace dialog box allows you to search the active editor window for text that matches the search text, as well as replace the matching text. This section describes how to use the dialog boxes for find operations and find-and-replace operations.

For more information about opening files, see "Opening an Existing File".

This section discusses the following topics:

• Finding Text
• Finding and Replacing Text
• Searching with Special Characters