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January 17, 2025
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Text-based Editing multiple words search

  • January 17, 2025
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Is there a way to search for multiple words in one search instance, or is the feature only able to find all uses of one word at a time?

i.e. inputing a list of different inappropriate words in the search bar of the transcript function to fill out.

Correct answer Stan Jones

@diego27513395vg4v,

 

Yes, it's a feature request; the regular PR functions require one search at a time.

 

However, see this post from staff @Alexander_DVA regarding undocumented regex search:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/transcribing-options/m-p/12758296#M395784

 

In your case, to find either of the words "we" or "and," this works for me:

\\R{(?:we|and)}

 

The \\R{} was @alexander-riss' special code to expose Regex in the Text panel search.


The ()'s are part of the regex expression.

 

Note to me: in a previous example I gave involving finding punctuation, square brackets - [] - were used. Online today I learned not to confuse round brackets used in this example searching for text characters with square brackets that were used in a search for a character class.

 

I'm not great at Regex; I search online to see if I can find an option. It is powerful and can be very complex. I use it to manipulate formatting of text files in Notepad++, for example, to convert srt format to something else.

 

Edit to add: working today in PR 25.0.0.

 

Stan

 

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Stan Jones
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January 18, 2025

@diego27513395vg4v,

 

Yes, it's a feature request; the regular PR functions require one search at a time.

 

However, see this post from staff @Alexander_DVA regarding undocumented regex search:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-pro-discussions/transcribing-options/m-p/12758296#M395784

 

In your case, to find either of the words "we" or "and," this works for me:

\\R{(?:we|and)}

 

The \\R{} was @alexander-riss' special code to expose Regex in the Text panel search.


The ()'s are part of the regex expression.

 

Note to me: in a previous example I gave involving finding punctuation, square brackets - [] - were used. Online today I learned not to confuse round brackets used in this example searching for text characters with square brackets that were used in a search for a character class.

 

I'm not great at Regex; I search online to see if I can find an option. It is powerful and can be very complex. I use it to manipulate formatting of text files in Notepad++, for example, to convert srt format to something else.

 

Edit to add: working today in PR 25.0.0.

 

Stan

 

Participant
October 6, 2025

thats a great workaround thank you! that will get me by for now until Adobe do something more official, in 25.3 if you add your example and then backspace to edit it crashes.

But a copy and paste is fine for me 🙂

Stan Jones
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Community Expert
October 6, 2025

@defaultmou9d0o5zgf5,

 

On Win 11 in PR 25.5.0, I do not get that crash.

 

As you say, you have a way!

 

To test, you might try a right-click delete.

 

Stan

 

Kevin-Monahan
Community Manager
Community Manager
January 17, 2025

Thanks for the question, @diego27513395vg4v. What happens when you try this currently? @Stan Jones, have you tried this? This sounds like a feature request. Let us now.

 

Thanks,

Kevin

 

Kevin Monahan - Sr. Community & Engagement Strategist – Pro Video and Audio
Participant
January 17, 2025

Currently, searching for any words groups them. For example: searching "term1, term 2" will only find results that match the whole phrase vs all results for "term1"and all results "term2". I am not sure if there is a specific way to simplify multiple term-searches before suggesting a feature request. Thanks!