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Options->Corrections->'Edit Substitutions' For replacements as you type: Did you forget what you named someone or something or how you spelled it? Substitution text (across all projects) aka Auto-Correct I think everyone else has already covered options for text you've already written. This has come up for me with things like consistent spelling of made up names (Baelish, Balish) or placeholder ones (SoAndSo1, OrbThingy).

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For cases like this, the third, manual option is the safest, as it allows you to find all instances of a name automatically, but authorize replacements on an individual basis. For example, if you replace 'John' in 'John's' by 'James', the outcome will not be what you expect. Some names are embedded grammatically different than others.

Under Edit > Find > Project ReplaceвЂ¦ you can perform a manual search and replace. Here you can define replacements similar to a normal search & replace. When you compile your final document, you have the option to define character strings and what you want them to get replaced by under Compile > All Options > Replacements > Project Replacements.

Define automatic replacements when you compile You can define five tags under Project > Meta-Data Settings > Project Properties. For example you can use the project title tag as the name of one character, and the author's surname tag as the name of another. the current page number), but others are replaced by information that you enter. The information that most of these placeholder tags get replaced by cannot be changed by you (e.g. When you click on Help > Placeholder Tags ListвЂ¦ you can see a list of predefined tags that you can insert into your document and that will get replaced by the appropriate information when you compile your finished document. As far as I know, you can do three things: 1. I don't think you can directly create your own custom placeholders in Scrivener.

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