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Resolution: Won't Fix
NOTE: This suggestion is for Confluence Cloud. Using Confluence Server? See the corresponding suggestion.
Customer has requested the ability to conduct a find and replace across an entire Confluence installation, within a space, within one or more selected spaces or within one or more pages.
First, I'd like to apologise for not updating the status of this issue earlier. We have decided to close this issue as something we can't see ourselves doing in the foreseeable future, and I wanted to take a moment to explain why.
Confluence has gone on quite a journey since the early days as an enterprise wiki - we're always a little in awe of the many wonderful and varied ways Confluence is used. In the past few months, we've done a lot of soul searching about the future direction of Confluence. We've researched how our customers use Confluence today and identified ways we can better serve all Confluence users. We're determined to improve Confluence as platform for all teams, but have decided to concentrate our efforts specifically on helping teams collaborate on software and IT projects.
Global find and replace can be used in many situations, but we know the main requirement for this feature is for producing and publishing technical documentation. Focusing our development effort on helping software and IT teams collaborate means that this, and other features more typically found in help authoring and publishing tools, won't be making it onto our roadmap. This doesn't mean that Confluence is no longer a great platform for producing documentation and we hope many teams will continue to use Confluence to write and collaborate on their internal and external documentation.
We have a vibrant and growing ecosystem of add-on developers, some of which are already developing fantastic add-ons to extend Confluence for the world of technical documentation. In the spirit of openness and transparency, we wanted to clearly communicate that we won't be implementing global find and replace in the foreseeable future and are happy to offer up this feature for vendors in our ecosystem to implement. We have already begin working with some vendors to see what can be done in this space.
Cheers,
Sherif Mansour
Confluence Product Manager
sherif at atlassian dot com
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[AI-828] Global Find and replace
We could really use a feature like this as well, are there any updates on re-evaluating this?
I changed my name this year and it was a pain to go through and change it across all the Spaces in the work Confluence. It would've been so much easier with a find-and-replace that wasn't page-scoped.
It's a little embarrassing to find instances of my old name that I missed.
This Won't Fix decision was made almost 6 years ago (which is a lifetime in software years).
Is Atlassian's strategic position still that Confluence is not for tech pubs? Sadly, the data supports that. 
And this conversation with Amrut who posted a comment earlier that they were working on it
27 April 2016 at 15:11
Hello David,
We had kept the project on hold due to other priorities.
If you are interested we will revisit that as a project .
Please do share your coordinates or Skype id for communication.
Awaiting for your reply.
Thanks & Regards
Amrut D Bhonsle
Amrut Software Pvt ltd. Pune
www.amrutsoftware.com
Sent: 26 April 2016 12:18
To: Amrut at E Quest India
Subject: Fwd: Confluence global search and replace - Progress?
Hello
In a comment in this issue:
https://jira.atlassian.com/browse/CONF-2522
you said that you were working on a global search and replace plugin for Confluence.
When will this product be available?
Thanks
David
Also this conversation: https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38058080
See the following conversation with Rumpelcoders about further development of their recently released search and replace plugin. This plugin is a good start but we still need something for the end users. https://answers.atlassian.com/questions/38058064
Hi Stephen,
Thank you so much for your post! Above is great help for me and it's about magic 
Intel CHD Jira Admin
added a comment - Hey Stephen, it's a great effort, but I think many people will not be willing to use the result until they see version management of sources, issue tracking, release notes,etc. It's a little strange that an issue for Atlassian is now being use to track issues in your contribution
. I don't want to put you off, but wouldn't it be better to package this as a plugin and make it available over Atlassian Marketplace? Maybe Atlassian will make you an offer one day!
-David
Intel CHD Jira Admin
added a comment - Hey Stephen, it's a great effort, but I think many people will not be willing to use the result until they see version management of sources, issue tracking, release notes,etc. It's a little strange that an issue for Atlassian is now being use to track issues in your contribution . I don't want to put you off, but wouldn't it be better to package this as a plugin and make it available over Atlassian Marketplace? Maybe Atlassian will make you an offer one day!
-David I fixed the problem, so if you go back to the page and get the new version, it shouldn't cause the problem any longer:
https://streamline.atlassian.net/wiki/display/STRMLN/Search+and+Replace+User+Macro
Sorry about that, please get the new version.
This feels like a pretty basic feature that shouldn't require installing a third-party app like ScriptRunner. Are there any plans to add this to the roadmap?