Global Find and Replace currently has two options for document status after completing the operation: Draft and Published.

I have been informed that this means the following: regardless of the state of the article having content replaced, the revised article will either be published by the operation if Published is selected, or converted to Draft if Draft is selected.

In the case where the search term occurs in both draft and published content, neither of these options is suitable. If Draft is selected, the published articles become draft and have to be manually published. If Published is selected, then draft articles become published.

The third option required for this feature is to leave the state of the article untouched by the Global Find and Replace operation. Draft articles should remain in draft state and Published articles should remain in Published state.

Without the third option, two Global Find and Replace operation must be run for every term to avoid publishing draft articles or creating drafts from published articles.