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Paper: Find + Replace (with blanks) doesn't work

Device: Macbook
Operating System/Browser (if using the web): macOS Tahoe 26.3.1, Chrome
Dropbox App Version: Paper

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Whenever I try using Find & Replace in Dropbox Paper, I can’t seem to replace text with nothing (leave the replacement field blank) the way I can in MS Word/Google Docs.
e.g. if I want to quickly remove a recurring character, extra spaces, or formatting marker across a document, Paper doesn’t let me do a blank replace, which makes cleanup much harder than it needs to be.

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Megan

Hi there, @milaaaa, let's see what we can find about this together!

I just tested this on my end, and it looks like the feature worked the way it was intended to.

However, keep in mind that when it came to replacing the "-" with a blank space, I actually had to press space on the "Replace with" window. Is it safe to assume you're trying the same thing?

I'm asking because you'd need to use something in the "Replace with" window in order for this to work. Leaving it blank indeed doesn't allow you to make the change.

If you use a space to change the dash symbol on your Paper documents, does it work? If not, then could you use an entirely different browser, or incognito tab in order to see if the behavior remains the same there?

Keep me posted, and we'll take it from there!