Search and replace for docs | Voters

Search and replace for docs

Basil Weibel

It can happen that for example marketing terminology changes. Currently you cannot search and replace in clickup docs. So this would be useful.

September 6, 2020

Erick Mikiten

I just put the wrong date in about 20 places in a document and have to manually change 8/18/24 to 9/18/24. Please add a Find and Replace. 
MacWrite on my Mac had this in 1984. That's 40 years ago, folks.
Even if there's complexities with F&R across multiple Spaces or multiple Docs, adding it within a doc would be 90% of what I think we all need.

Zach Saw

Agreed - this is a massive oversight. Confluence has had this "feature" for as long as I could remember. Nearly 2025 - I doubt anyone considers this a feature anymore. I remember my Borland IDE back in the 80s with this "feature" too.

Quentin Provent-Ravenet

Hello the team,
Where are you with that feature ?
I also adopted Clickup and just realized this very basic thing isn't available...so ?
Thanks

Steph Brace

Was just submitting a similar request but for ticket descriptions. Figured I'd throw my support here in hopes that this feature could be available in both places. Thoughts below.
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Use case: Write an entire lengthy ticket description. Decide an element of the project's terminology has changed ("enabled" is now being referred to as "published"). Or, I just want to write freely and quickly, then correct capitalization of a product name later in a quick search-and-replace.
In ClickUp, I have no way to quickly search and replace these phrases. If I copy my content over to a different document editor or a ChatGPT window, I lose all formatting. Even basic formatting is lost, let alone toggles and other formatting specific to ClickUp.
Using "Help me write" AI assist from Google in Chrome within the ClickUp window is also not an option, formatting is lost with that method as well.
Starting my writing in a different service just to have search-and-replace available, then bringing it over to ClickUp for final reformatting, is tedious. Plus I'd only get one shot at it.

Ethan Whitted

Would still really love to see this, as we've switched all of our documents off of Google Docs and onto ClickUp, but certain tasks like large terminology changes are becoming VERY cumbersome now.

Abby Dong

Search and replace is critical for efficient content management. We use ClickUp for our company wiki, and we need the ability to search for all instances of a team name, a product name, an email, or a certain term to update them when they change.

Brent

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Hi all, thanks for all your feedback here. We've updated the status of this request. This helps us manage and prioritize requests more effectively.

Please continue to share details on how this request would improve your experience!

Brian Empey

Brent I've been using Clickup for a couple of weeks.  One of its main attractions is that it supports document creation and collaborative editing. 
ALMOST.   Creating DOCs, but not being able to edit them is useless. 
Templates without "find and replace" are useless. 
I'm about to abandon Clickup.  I'm NOT going to copy my templates into another editor, just to change "ProjectName" to the actual project name in several places; and then copy from that program (like, a REAL editor) back to Clickup DOCs. 
There was mention in comments about REPLACE being considered in version 3.0 of DOCs.  
Hint: If anyone working at Clickup actually USED the SW from Clickup, then REPLACE would have been in DOCs editor version 0.01 
I've got over 45 years experience writing and editing on computers. 
This is the first SW tool that I recall that is missing Find and Replace. 
"WordStar" had Find and Replace over 40 years ago, and it was a horrible POS of an editor! 
SUMMARY: 
No REPLACE means that Templates are useless. 
No Templates for DOCs and TASKs means I'm wasting precious hours per day. 
IF 
Wasting hours per day on a tool 
THEN 
Switch to a different tool 
ENDIF 
Can you pass that on to someone who can correct this glaring oversight?

Brent

Brian Empey Thank you for sharing that detailed feedback! Your comments about templates and the collaborative editing experience are particularly insightful.

We'll keep everyone updated on any progress or changes related to this feature as we work on enhancing our Docs experience.

Oliver Le

OMG I can image why ClickUp can not search anh replace

Luis

Firstly, good job clickup on your iteration process, buuut find and replace is crucial. Even basic notepad has it 😅

Des Daa

This would be wonderful!

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