The Find and replace text action enables you to find text in a presentation or a specific slide and optionally replace the matching text. Use it to update repeated labels, names, dates, or other text values in slides.

Settings

  • Session name: Select one of the following options:
    • Session name: Enter the name of the session used during the Open action.

      (Optional) Click the Insert a value icon to select an existing variable that you have used to store the default session name.

    • Variable: Enter the name of the variable that you have used to store the PowerPoint session name.
  • Find text: Specify the text you want the action to locate within the presentation.
    Note: A maximum of 256 characters are allowed.
  • Search criteria: Select one of the following options to match the search criteria:
    • Match case: Matches only text with the same capitalization as the found text, enabling case-sensitive matching.
    • Match whole words: Limits matches to whole-word instances (avoid partials).
  • Range: Select one of the following options to specify the scope of search:
    • Full presentation: Searches and replaces text across all slides.
    • Specific slide: Searches only within the selected slide. Specify the slide index number to replace the text on that slide.
  • Replace text: Specify the new text that should replace the matched content.
    Note: If the Replace text option is disabled, this action performs a search only; otherwise, it both finds and replaces the text.
    Note: A maximum of 256 characters are allowed.
  • Text occurrence: Select one of the following options to specify which instances of the found text you want to replace:
    • All occurrences: Replaces every match found within the chosen range.
    • First occurrence: Replaces only the first occurrence found.
    • Last occurrence: Replaces only the last occurrence found.
  • Assign output to variable: Create or choose a Number variable to store the number of matched or processed text occurrences.