Illustrator 2022 New Feature Select Same Text

[@kelliciamorse4118]

OMG! This feature is so amazing! Seriously going to save me so much time! I am having to update multiple maps and selecting similar text boxes in the map to change them to our new brand standards. This will seriously save me like 50+ hours of time! Thank you for pointing this out!

[@igloo-imaging]

Excellent, glad it helped. It’s a good one.

[@hansms7968]

Is there a way to select a specific word and all its occurrences in an Illustrator document?

[@igloo-imaging]

Not that I know of, you can use find and replace and match case etc. But if it’s to change the format I don’t think so?

[@wouteroomen7318]

I wrote this script with GPT. Save it as a .jsx doc and it does the trick:
// Illustrator Script: Select Text Frames with Matching Text
function main() {
var doc = app.activeDocument;
if (!doc) {
alert("No active document found.");
return;
}
var sel = doc.selection;
var searchText = "";
if (sel.length > 0) {
// Check if any selected item is a text frame
var textFrameFound = false;
for (var i = 0; i < sel.length; i++) {
if (sel[i].typename === "TextFrame") {
searchText = sel[i].contents;
textFrameFound = true;
break;
}
}
if (!textFrameFound) {
// No text frame selected, prompt the user
searchText = prompt("No text box selected.

Enter the text to search for:", "");
if (!searchText) {
alert("No text entered. Script will exit.");
return;
}
}
} else {
// No selection, prompt the user
searchText = prompt("No text box selected.

Enter the text to search for:", "");
if (!searchText) {
alert("No text entered. Script will exit.");
return;
}
}
var matchingTextFrames = [];
var textFrames = doc.textFrames;
for (var i = 0; i < textFrames.length; i++) {
var tf = textFrames[i];
if (tf.contents === searchText) {
matchingTextFrames.push(tf);
}
}
if (matchingTextFrames.length > 0) {
doc.selection = matchingTextFrames;
alert(matchingTextFrames.length + " text box(es) found and selected.");
} else {
alert("No text boxes found with the text: " + searchText);
}
}
main();