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OneNote Search and Replace

It is Friday evening after a nice long busy week and I got permission to release another powertoy!  This powertoy is the OneNote Search and Replace feature so please check it out.  I know a few people have asked for this on the newsgroup as well as via the comments section.  Perfect for when code names change (think Longhorn-->Vista).  This powertoy was written by an superstar OneNote developer so a big round of applause for Jeffrey; thank you much for coding this and letting me release this.

How it works

  1. Download the application from here: OneNoteSearchReplace.zip
  2. Extract the application and run the setup.exe
  3. You will now have a new toolbar button in OneNote which looks like this:
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  4. Click the button and you will see a window like this:
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  5. Now you can choose your search terms and what scope.
  6. Click Preview and Replace to try it out!

Remember all powertoys available from this blog are AS IS and are not supported by Microsoft. 

Please use at your own risk, but please do enjoy!  Have a great weekend all!

Published Saturday, June 23, 2007 2:37 AM by descapa

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# OneNote Search and Replace at OneNote PowerToys

PingBack from http://www.onenotepowertoys.com/2007/06/23/onenote-search-and-replace/

Saturday, June 23, 2007 7:07 AM by OneNote Search and Replace at OneNote PowerToys

# Search and Replace Finally Comes to OneNote

I am a big Search and Replace person, especially in Word and Dreamweaver. It boggled my mind why the

Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:46 AM by Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0

# OneNote Search and Replace Powertoy

Daniel Escapa has released a new OneNote 2007 Powertoy . The Search and Replace Powertoy does just what

Saturday, June 23, 2007 9:47 AM by Pocket.Net - Mobile 2.0

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Hey Daniel. Good idea but the folks at GBM are reporting it's not UMPC-friendly at 800x480 any chance for supporting that resolution?

Saturday, June 23, 2007 3:42 PM by Josh Einstein

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Josh - Yes sadly it seemed to be hard coded, that is why this is a powertoy since it isn't as polished as most things Microsoft officially releases.  Sorry about that but alas..."AS IS"  BTW sorry to be unhelpful but there is really all I can do.  Otherwise I hope it works well...take care.

Sunday, June 24, 2007 3:28 AM by descapa

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Just last week I was looking for Search and Replace.  I couldn't find it.  I started to blog about it and was going to ping you with a big, old, WHY CAN'T I SEARCH AND REPLACE?  I got a little distracted with other work and didn't send it yet.  Great timing and nice to find this now!

Now I can delete that draft post.  :)

Monday, June 25, 2007 6:18 PM by Toby Getsch

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

I was elected to write regarding this add-in and the Read over your How-to on creating an add-in for OneNote

Monday, July 02, 2007 11:55 PM by Eric B

# Summer OneNote 2007 news round-up

It's getting hard to keep blogging about OneNote in detail now that I am no longer on the team, but I

Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:12 PM by Chris Pratley's OneNote Blog

# Summer OneNote 2007 news round-up

It's getting hard to keep blogging about OneNote in detail now that I am no longer on the team, but

Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:46 PM by 外部部落格

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

After I install it, I don't see any new button in OneNote. I just uninstalled and reinstalled it just to make sure I didn't do anything wrong. There's a folder in my Programs directory called "OneNote Search and Replace" with files such as an icon, dll and an executable. I just can't figure out how to get the button in OneNote.

Monday, October 08, 2007 3:39 PM by Julia Sifers

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

I installed it and it just says Search Failed no matter what I try to search for and what options I set.  OneNote2007...

Saturday, October 13, 2007 8:23 PM by Joel

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Same problem as Joel. Installed it on OneNote 2007 on Vista Business and no matter what I try searching for, I get a "Search failed".

Wednesday, October 17, 2007 12:02 PM by Jon

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Some other people have reported that if you never installed Desktop search 3.0 you get "search failed". Maybe that solves it?

Wednesday, October 24, 2007 2:50 PM by Chris_Pratley

# OneNote Powertoys from the PM team, and a one question survey about them

A few astute readers pointed out I (intentionally) missed a few addins the OneNote team finished last

Friday, January 18, 2008 10:26 AM by OneNote Testing

# OneNote Powertoys from the PM team, and a one question survey about them

A few astute readers pointed out I (intentionally) missed a few addins the OneNote team finished last

Friday, January 18, 2008 10:54 AM by Noticias externas

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

This is great!  I am among those avid OneNote users who missed the original posts about these powertoys.  Thanks for the repost, and keep up the great work!

Wednesday, February 13, 2008 5:28 PM by Dave J. (Scoop0901)

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Like several others, when I press the Preview button I get a "Search Failed" message. Pressing the Replace button does nothing. This is on OneNote 2007 12.0.4518.1014, running under XP SP2.

Friday, February 15, 2008 12:46 AM by Greg

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

You Have to install Windows Desktop Search for this PowerToy to work. I was having the "Search Failed" error consistently now matter what I searched for, but installed the WDS fixed that.

The PowerToy works perfectly now.

Get Windows Desktop Search for XP at the URl below:

http://tinyurl.com/37hn2q

Friday, February 15, 2008 4:47 PM by Michael H.

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Hello.

I find this very useful but with large notebooks, and maybe it's a Vista thing, but I can search for text but all that happens is that the Vista cursor changes to loading (spinning circle) and then the list name appears.

After that the cursor still spins and the program state changes to 'Not responding' and I cannot do anything apart from quit the program or restart my PC.

Any ideas?

Many thanks.

Ian

Monday, March 10, 2008 8:08 PM by Ian

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

This is such a great idea. The ability to be able to use search and replace in Onenote will save me a great deal of time and trouble.

Unfortunately it just doesn't work for me. I have installed in Xp on both my desktop and laptop, with OneNote 2007 on both, and Desktop Search 3. The icon appears in OneNote as advertised, but if I click on it the icon becomes greyed out and no box (as described in step 4) appears. Nothing happens.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem might be, and whether there is a solution. This is one tool I really would like to have.

Many Thanks

Mike Marchant

Wednesday, April 02, 2008 9:49 PM by Mike Marchant

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

I have the same problem -- the icon greys out after I click it.  Then nothing happens.

Monday, June 23, 2008 2:29 PM by YKY

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

This is a wonderful addition to onenote.  Used on several computers.  Absolutely no bugs and works well.

Sunday, August 10, 2008 11:37 PM by tom pattison

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Why in the seven portals of the Gaia Goddess of the Lunar Palace of Antiqua did Microsoft NOT INCLUDE FIND & REPLACE IN ONENOTE?????? I thought it was supposed to be FUNCTIONAL software i.e. useful???

I was tearing my hair out trying to figure out where the function was - and to make matters worse, they don't even think to mention it in the Help files! Argh!

Thanks very much for this PowerToy - I do appreciate your work - but Microsoft should be making a fully functional and supported version for OneNote! Plus, I don't want to install Windows Desktop Search so I suspect this isn't going to work for me anyway...

I can't believe Microsoft - once again defying all logic and common sense.

Thursday, September 04, 2008 8:20 AM by Michael

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

I am a very sleep deprived 2nd year law student trying to organize my outlines for my two remaining finals.  I was just so frustrated at having to go through hundreds of pages of notes to format every "Rule:" that showed up individually.  If I could send hugs or cookies via the net,  you would have lots and lots (especially since that's pretty much all I can afford these days ;)).  I just wanted to comment here and say thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you... THANK YOU!  Stress meter slowly receding from red zone.... you saved me from having a real life BSOD. :)

Thursday, December 11, 2008 5:15 PM by Melissa

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

I  installed  the  powertoys but  no  icon  in  the  tool  bar. Using  vista and  office  2007. please  show  me  the  way!

thanks  

Sunday, December 14, 2008 12:08 PM by mishan

# RESOLVED! Grayed out OneNote Search and Replace Button

I had the same issue trying to use the Search and Replace add-in (grays out when clicked - nothing happens)

I went back into my Office installtion setup and noticed that .NET Programmability Support was not installed.  Just for good measure I also installed Microsoft Forms 2.0 .NET Programmability Support.

Worked like a charm!

I launched OneNote and clicked the button; the form window popped right up.  I didn't even have to reboot or go dig out my Office 2007 installation media!

Thursday, January 29, 2009 4:23 PM by John Rea-Hedrick

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Great powertoy - thanks!  

One suggestion: Could 'Selection' be added to the scope option so you can replace only within highlighted/selected text on a page?

Thanks!

Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:29 PM by Tim Traylor

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Daniel,

Do you happen to have the source code? The search/replace doesn't seem to work well with a "complex" notebook of mine and I wouldn;t mind debugging it...

Thanks,

Milver

Monday, March 16, 2009 11:18 PM by Milver

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

This is brilliant Daniel you are king of OneNote!!!

Friday, May 08, 2009 9:49 AM by Pete

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

I am having the same problem as Julie above and I noticed no one responded to her. I have Windows desktop 4.0, I even tried to downgrade to 3.0 but that did not help. After I run the setup of search and replace, I am not seeing any new toolbar in One Note. If anyone could walk me through a suggestion, it would be very helpful

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 7:03 AM by Amanda

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Ok I finally figured it out. I had to check windows for updates (which I had set for automatic but because I use Mozilla and not Internet Explorer were not working) and once my windows updates were installed, I re-installed find and replace and it worked. It is a lifesaver because I am studying for the NYS Bar and my outline had one huge error. Thanks

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:57 AM by Amanda

# re: OneNote Search and Replace

Downloaded and installed and this Powertoy works perfectly.  Thanks for the much needed replace feature!

Thursday, July 09, 2009 3:05 PM by Brian

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