This has been suggested before in 2018, but given the time lapse and lack of recent response, I wonder if it’s been lost among the chatter here.
A find and replace feature is essential for large projects with a lot of text. Ideally, I would prefer a such a feature to permit a user to replace specific values across all Coda pages in a project, but at the very least it would be great to have the ability to automatically replace specific values in a table on one Coda page.
For example, recently I wanted to replace all mentions of a specific system that was retired with the name of the system currently in place. I have a table of over 300 rows on a Coda page, with the legacy system mentioned randomly across columns and rows of the table. Instead of being able to search for the old system name and replace all mentions of it with the new name in one fell swoop like I would in Excel, I have to find the term searching with the browser through ctrl+f and manually replace each instance I come across.
This is incredibly time consuming, so I go back and forth copying and pasting CODA data into excel, using the find & replace option there, and pasting the revised data back into CODA. This solution is also not perfect, as I’ve messed up the formatting of tables before when pasting revised data into CODA.
Given that, much of what CODA solves for with its service, Excel does as well, one would assume such an innate and basic feature of Excel would be present in CODA. In my professional opinion, the lack of this feature greatly reduces the appeal of CODA against MS excel.
