Possible to search collapsed content? And possible to collapse or expand ALL content at once within a doc?

It would be great if you could search for content appearing in collapsed sections within a doc. Can’t currently do this as far as I can work out.

Also, is there an existing short cut/function or plans for an option to collapse or expand all content within a single doc vs individually collapsing/expanding each section?

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Hey Jessica - thanks for posting your question here!

For your first question, it should be possible to search even within collapsed content via the spotlight search feature (the little magnifying glass in the upper left). This search tool does have some limitations, but works well for single (or few) search terms. That said, if you’re finding that this tool isn’t working for you, definitely let us know so we can look into it further.

As for the collapsing/expanding point: unfortunately, we don’t currently support this in the product. But I do think it’s a great idea that could be useful for many. I’ll go ahead and add this one to our feature request tracker. Sorry for the inconvenience in the meantime!

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Hi Lena! Revisiting this, this has come up for me when I need to “find and replace” in a page in a Coda Doc that has collapsible lists. Right now, I’m using this Chrome extension to do that, but have to manually expand all collapsed lists to use it.

Two feature requests that could help address this:

  • Coda Find & Replace that searches within collapsible lists on a page, (or heck, even a doc)
  • “Expand/ Collapse all” option for docs

Thank you for your time and recommendations!