Is there a find function as in Adobe Reader. This would be handy in a drawing with a lot of text and also to use as a tool to verify symbol names with lists on legends I've created.
You can use the mask function to find text Window Menu - Edit, Clipboard Select (I've changed my .mnu file so I can use Ctrl-E) The Dcad Menu - Mask / Entity / Text / Text Mask / Text Search
For Symbol Name, you can pull up the File Info and show the symbol names. Or in Templates, run a report (S8) like DcadQty or DcadList
Roger Donaldson AIA CSI CDT NCARB abUsing Datacad since 1986, ver 23.00.01.02 (SE) http://www.RogerDonaldsonArchitect.com
I'm not getting this. I follow the steps Melina and Roger suggest. I get to the dialogue box that I type in the word I am looking for then....nada. I guess I am expecting to see the word highlighted so I can find it in the drawing. If I can figure this out I'll post an ordered step by step list.
You have to go backtrack through the Mask menu and perform a selection (area, etc.). Each one that is found will appear on the command line or in a ptext/mtext edit box (I'm assuming you are using the edit text command). If there are multiple instances, hitting enter (or ok) to toggle to the one you want works. The text entity with the word you want will disappear from the screen while being edited - that would be your only indication of where it was in the drawing.