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@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ If you launch either of those commands, you'll be greeted with the Find and Repl

-To search within your current file you can press Cmd+FCtrl+F, type in a search string and press Enter (or Cmd+GF3 or the "Find Next" button) multiple times to cycle through all the matches in that file. Alt+Enter will find all occurences of the search string. The Find and Replace panel also contains buttons for toggling case sensitivity, performing regular expression matching, scoping the search to selections, and performing whole word search.
+To search within your current file you can press Cmd+FCtrl+F, type in a search string and press Enter (or Cmd+GF3 or the "Find Next" button) multiple times to cycle through all the matches in that file. Alt+Enter will find all occurrences of the search string. The Find and Replace panel also contains buttons for toggling case sensitivity, performing regular expression matching, scoping the search to selections, and performing whole word search.
If you type a string in the replacement text box, you can replace matches with a different string. For example, if you wanted to replace every instance of the string "Scott" with the string "Dragon", you would enter those values in the two text boxes and press the "Replace All" button to perform the replacements.