I have not had any success with the "Find and Replace" tool. Is this a known issue? Is there anywhere you can go to see what has been reported and what has not, other than here in the forums?
I am unaware of any resource to allow users to see what issues have officially been reported to Corel.
I have seen other Community forum members post reports of Find and Replace "not working", but not with details that would allow someone to try to replicate the failure.
I find it sort of tedious to use for simple searches, but I haven't personally observed it to "not work at all".
For some reason I can't upload my working file directly so I have provided a link below.
Basically I'm trying to Find and Replace >>> Replace Objects >>> Color >>> Find Fills (PMS Process Blue C)>>> Replace Color (PMS 300) >>> Replace All. I even tried Replacing Objects >>> Color model or palette >>> Find Fills (Any color model or palette) >>> Replace with: Grayscale >>> Replace All. Nothing works. Even the Pantone percentages cannot be change with find and replace outlines. I seem to get "No objects found" every time.
I work on Windows 10 PC with the latest version of CorelDRAW Graphics Suite 2019.
www.dropbox.com/.../114338.zip
Thank you for sharing that information.
Trying a number of times with that document, I saw some cases where Find and Replace worked correctly - but I also saw cases where it did not find anything.
When I see it not working, I can create a new document, fill a rectangle with CMYK Red, then try Find and Replace after specifying the fill to find by sampling that rectangle - and have it find nothing!
One observation that seems to be consistent for me is that, if I launch CorelDRAW using "F8" to reset the workspace to default, I can open that document and use Find and Replace to successfully replace a color - at least once.
Here's a video showing it working after an "F8" workspace reset - and then failing when I try the same operation on a second copy of the document - and then failing on a newly-created document:
VIDEO: Replace Color 01
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Thanks for testing it out- I really appreciate it. I feel better that the issue is not isolated to me only. It looks like a bug that needs to be resolved in an update. I just hope Corel Technical Support see this post:)
I know the feeling. It is pretty grim when something that matters to you doesn't work, and there is no way of knowing whether it is even considered to be a "known problem".
I experimented some more with some very simple files, and saw some strange behavior. In some cases, the Replace operation finds nothing - but if I move an object on the page a little bit and then try again, the Replace works.