# Find and Replace not working 7.6.5

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-not-working-7-6-5/8096>\
**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [March 4, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-not-working-7-6-5/8096 "2014-03-04T00:22:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![aharris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@aharris](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aharris)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-not-working-7-6-5/8096/1 "2014-03-04T00:22:25Z")

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When I use the find and replace tool, it only works for me maybe 1 out of 20 tries. I rarely get a pop up that tells me it was successful. What I am seeing is that my search will return maybe 3 results where a tag is used that I searched for. I will click replace all and either nothing happens after I click yes or maybe the first one will updated in the results window. I also, tried replacing each result individually and that seems to work but it only updates after I click on another result (which is impossible if there is only one result). Then if I don’t click close right then and start all over it won’t save the changes at all and usually doesn’t anyway.

I’m getting no where with a substantial tag naming convention change that I need to do. I don’t know if I am dealing with user error or a bug. I did just realize this project is running 7.6.5 which is a release candidate. I haven’t found out why we are running this rather than the latest released version. Maybe I need to roll back to 7.6.4 if that is even possible.

Thanks for any help!

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**Author:** ![aharris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bcef8e/32.png) [@aharris](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/aharris)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 12:30am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-not-working-7-6-5/8096/2 "2014-03-04T00:30:08Z")

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Update: I just figured out that Replace seems to work if the window is open that happens to contain the result that you are trying to replace. I have 67 windows so I’m not what will happen if I open all of them.

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**Author:** ![nmudge](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/nmudge/32/3394_2.png) [@nmudge](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/nmudge)\
**Post date:** [March 4, 2014, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/find-and-replace-not-working-7-6-5/8096/3 "2014-03-04T00:43:45Z")

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What happens if you change the Window search from “Open windows”, to “All windows” in the Find/Replace window? Does that work?