The Replace Font tool is used to locate text with specific formatting in your content and change the formatting, if desired. Replace Font can be used to replace the following formatting:

• Replace direct formatting with other direct formatting (web pages and topics)
  
• Replace direct formatting with a text style (web pages only)
   
• Replace one style with another style (web pages only)

You can start this tool from the Library or the Outline Editor. From the Library, you must have at least one document selected or the tool is disabled. If no documents are selected in the Outline Editor, the entire outline is searched; this is equivalent to selecting the root of the outline.

Replacement Scope

By default, Replace Font searches the selection and its related documents. Clicking the View Related Documents link displays a list of the related documents and their locations. For this process, related documents are all searchable documents that are directly or indirectly linked as children of the selection. For example, if you select a section that has topics and each of the topics has a web page linked as its concept, choosing to search related documents searches the section, the topics, and the web pages linked to the topics. Templates and package contents are not included in this operation. If you want to search only the selected item(s), you can deselect the Include Related Documents option in the Replace Font dialog box.

Replacement Options
To further define a search, you specify the type(s) of text to include in font replacement. In topics, you can apply font replacement to bubble text, Introduction/End frame text, string input text, and template text. You can also apply font replacement to web page text. You must select at least one type of text to include before you can start the font replacement process.

Note: Style replacement only applies to web pages. The topic text options are only available when replacing direct formatting with direct formatting; they are not available when replacing with styles.

During font replacement, the Developer searches the specified type(s) of text in the topics and web pages in the selection and replaces all occurrences of the search font with the replacement font. The font replacement process completes automatically for the entire selection without prompts to confirm each replacement.

Warning! Use font replacement with caution. You cannot undo any fonts replaced using this tool.

 Multi-user Considerations

• Fonts can only be replaced in checked-out documents. If you plan to use this tool offline, you should check out all affected documents before going offline.
   
  When you execute this process, the Developer searches through all of the documents in the selection, regardless of their check in/out state. If a change is necessary for a document that is not checked out, and if you are working online, the Developer automatically checks the document out to you and makes the change. If the document cannot be checked out, for example, if it is open in another editor or checked out to another user or you are working offline, it is skipped. At the end of the process, a summary message appears with a link to an activity log. Clicking the View Activity Log link in the message displays a list of the documents that were checked out to you during the process and those that could not be checked out. After you save any changes, you should check in the documents to make them available to other authors and add the changes to the Developer's version control system.

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