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Dan LordDan Lord 

How can one find all places where a standard field is used?

For a custom field, there is a "Where is this used?" button. How can I find every place a standard field is used?
VinayVinay (Salesforce Developers) 
Hi Dan,

You would need to take metadata backup of your org and search for references using VS code or eclipse.

Reference:
https://trailhead.salesforce.com/trailblazer-community/feed/0D54S00000A7R0zSAF

Please close the thread by selected as Best Answer if above information was helpful.

Thanks,
Dan LordDan Lord

Thank you for that response. I did do that. I was hoping for an easier way since the fieldname I'm searching for is the Type field on the Account record. Other objects also have a Type field, so it takes some work to filter out all the unwanted ones.
Also, this approach, and I suppose every other approach, does not look inside Apex code in managed packages.
I'll wait to see if there are any other approaches, and if not, I'll mark your answer as the best.
VinayVinay (Salesforce Developers) 
Sure Dan.  Also you might be interested to review below Idea link and vote for this feature.

https://ideas.salesforce.com/s/idea/a0B8W00000Gdc0zUAB/expand-where-is-this-used-functionality-to-standard-fields

Thanks,
Dan LordDan Lord
Yep. I've already upvoted that. Thanks for suggesting it, though.
Dan LordDan Lord
And, before anybody suggests this: https://happysoup.io/usage

I've already tried that, too. It only showed me usages inside VisualForce pages.