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“Find Text and Replace it†in listing description doesn’t always Find
When I select a lot of items to bulk edit, “Find Text and Replace it†doesn’t work. It doesn’t find, even though I copied from a listing exactly what I wanted it to find. The result was a message that it found the wording zero times.
Related to this, when I use the edit screen for a group of listings, I’m unable to access and select the last paragraph of my description to edit it. If it’s a long description, so can’t be viewed in its entirety in the window, I’m not being allowed to scroll down and edit beyond what initially displays in the description window.
Thanks for any tips.
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wooden_flower
Mentor1 year ago@castlebooksandmore
Find and replace is very finicky. Do not copy from a listing - you might be picking up html code without knowing it. Type what you want to find.
Start with just a few words in a few listings. Expand the text until it includes all of what you need to replace, or until it fails and you can adjust your search. I would not try to do multiple paragraphs in a single find and replace - do each paragraph as a separate edit.
I have never tried to use bulk edit to reenter descriptions, so I am not familiar with the scrolling issue - have you tried shrinking your window size so that more of the text fits on your screen?