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Ignore case

Matches any casing. The replacement is inserted exactly as you typed it.

Whole words only

cat will not match inside catalog. Punctuation still counts as a word edge, so oldcorp, matches.

What the rest of the page keeps

The app edits the page’s own bytes rather than rebuilding it from a parse, so everything outside a match is sent back byte-for-byte as it was read — macros, tables, spacing and formatting included — except a link that holds only text, which goes with its words when a match removes every one of them, and the copy Confluence keeps of a decision list, rebuilt to match it (Confluence may reorder a macro’s attributes as it saves). Macro settings are never rewritten, other than the titles of info, note, tip, warning, panel, expand and code macros and the text of status labels, which “Also rewrite macro titles and status labels” changes; the run says how many matches it left inside the rest.

Undo one page

Every edit to a page is an ordinary Confluence version labelled with the run: the term and its replacement, or, for a run of several terms, how many it had. Open the page and revert from Page history.

A label change and a comment rewrite are not part of a page version, so reverting there leaves those as the run made them. Use Undo this run for either.

Undo a whole run

The results screen has an Undo this run button. It puts every page the run edited back to the version it was on beforehand, puts back any labels the run renamed, and puts each comment it rewrote back to that comment’s own earlier version. Pages somebody else has edited since are reported rather than overwritten, and so are comments.

A renamed page gets its old title back only where no other page of its space has taken it meanwhile; otherwise it keeps the new title, naming the page that has the old one where it found one. Putting a title back makes Confluence update the pages that name that page, in place and without a new version, so a space key or attribute order it changed on them when the run renamed the page can still differ.

Before writing a page, an apply or an undo checks whether someone has unpublished changes open on it, and leaves such a page alone, naming who. It cannot see every open edit (one typed in the last few seconds, for one), and writing over an edit it cannot see can lose it, so ask anyone editing the pages to publish or discard their changes first.

Do not undo by running the replacement backwards. If the new text already existed somewhere, a reverse run rewrites that too — and a rename like corp → corpcorp applies a second time to pages it has already changed.