Universal Search-and-Replace
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Oyster Amphibian
If anyone's interested, while this feature is still a work in progress, there's a Chromium extension I use for this exact thing.
I found it a while back— it's really just called "Find and Replace" ( https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/find-and-replace/bhmpidliobdjgkohacnkgfagkdmckcia ), accessible through any Chromium-based browser (that I've seen so far, though I'm certain it might have other browser compatibilities).
While it doesn't have your typical UI for a find/replace feature, it has both a pop-up and side-panel visual functionality, and you can essentially input a whole registry of words and/or characters you want to collectively change.
I've tried it out on Chrome, Edge, Opera and Comet so far, and it honestly helps a lot. While I haven't really looked into its cloud-backup feature, I know it does have a registry export option that basically allows you to save the list you might've created in one browser and import it into another; this is especially helpful if you either cross-browse, or even just to use in another computer, in case the browser extension synchronization doesn't do it automatically.
You can set it to automatically replace what you want, or set it so that you can manually activate it, and even disable those set to automatic-replacements without having to necessarily delete them from your list. Honestly, it actually works on any website, whether it's a writing platform our NC or a reading platform.
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Global Find & Replace Across Entire Project Is Missing
G
Gentle Prawn
Problem
Novelcrafter currently does not provide a way to perform global find & replace across an entire project.
For long-form writers, renaming a character or correcting a term requires manually editing each individual scene or exporting the text to an external editor.
This is a fundamental writing workflow issue, not an advanced feature request.
Why this matters
Renaming characters, locations, or concepts is a normal and unavoidable part of the writing process
Even experienced writers frequently revise names mid-draft
Without global replace, Novelcrafter becomes dependent on external editors for basic text maintenance
This breaks immersion and workflow, especially for writers who want to stay within Novelcrafter
Expected behavior
One of the following would already be sufficient:
Global Find & Replace with scope = Project
A confirmation-based “Replace All across project” action
Even a simple, non-regex implementation would be acceptable
Safety confirmations and undo history would be welcome, but the absence of any project-wide replace makes long-form editing unnecessarily difficult.
Summary
Global Find & Replace is a basic requirement for long-form writing tools.
Adding it would significantly improve usability and reduce the need for external editors.
D
Drab Crow
Absolutely need universal "find" and "find and replace" features. I hope this is coming soon. Scrivener has it. So should Novelcrafter.
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Search and Replace
H
Historical Wildfowl
It would be useful to have a serch and replace function eg to change names of character/places etc and also to find text within the prose when going through edits as you might in Word.
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Lagoon Bee
Desperately need this. Things change often particularly during revision. It's a huge time waster to hunt for words that must be changed. UPVOTE
A
Actual Marmot
Find - Replace is cruicial - UPVOTE
T
Technical Salmon
search and replace is an absolutely necessary tool when doing revisions. UPVOTE
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Search and replace upvote!
R
Raspberry Caribou
Search and replace upvote!!!
S
Soft Piranha
We definitely need this one. I change
names all the time. Especially when revising. Absolute must-have for
me.
C
Consistent Camel
I definitely think that there should be a search and replace, but I also really think that an advanced mode with REGEX would be really useful.
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