Fireworks: Find And Replace
This feature can greatly help automate your design process.
In this example I'm using a simple nav bar with 3 buttons. Let's
say this was for a client (not a big client) and she really
liked the shape but didn't like the colors, text or the font
used. Do I have to go through each button and change it
individually? You can, but you don't have to! You can make the
changes very quickly using the Find and Replace feature in
Fireworks.
Step 1. You can download the
source file for this or you can use one of your own.
Step 2. Click Control-F/Command-F to open the Find and
Replace panel. You can also find it by going to Edit>Find
Replace...
Step 3. The first item we will change will be the color of
the buttons in the normal, UP state.
Step 4. In the "Search" pop up menu, choose where you want to
search. In this case, we'll select document which will mean
Fireworks will search the entire document.
Step 5. In the Find pop up menu, select what you want to
search for. In this case we want to first change the color of
the Up state of the buttons.
Step 6. After you select Color, click in the Find Color
swatch and the Eyedropper Tool appears. You can now use the
Eyedropper Tool to select the color from one of your buttons.
When you've found the color you want to replace, click once to
select it.
Step 7. Choose a color to "Change To" the Find color with.
I'll choose a blue color here.
Step 8. In the Apply To pop up menu, choose where you want to
apply the color change. You can have Fireworks replace both the
Fill and the Stroke, or just one. In this case, we only need to
replace the Fill so that's the option we'll change.
Step 9. Now, just click Replace All and Fireworks will
automatically go through the buttons and make the changes.
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