Search and Replace Action using variables The example comes from the Help section for the Search and Replace functions and it works fine (disabled action). If however I modify it to send the search and replace strings via variables it does not… sending the search string by variable works but NOT th…

I think I found the answer in the Help page for the Search action. It says: Note that you can use tokens in the replace field (eg %Variable%Whatever%), but that when those tokens are expanded, the contents will themselves not be further expanded, so, for example you could not have a variable that …

I will try out your macro, but I have to retype your macro, because you accidentally uploaded only a single action, not your entire macro. So it will slow me down a bit. Do you know how to fix that?

I’m sorry about that. How do I ensure that the whole macro is uploaded?

Thanks for your help. I somehow missed that last paragraph which explains why I can’t do it

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tiffle July 13, 2026, 6:16pm 6

Have a look at this, it may help you Subroutine to Perform Search/Replace Using Variable Patterns

Search and Replace Action using variables

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