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Find and Replace in all open Word documents

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  • 01-10-2008 11:02am
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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭


    I want to find and replace text in a lot of different Word documents, is there any feature in Microsoft Word to find and replace in all open documents?


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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭fletch


    Did a bit of googling a found a few programmes that will do it....surely there must be a free app/simpler way of doing it??


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    conceited
    Closed Accounts Posts: 891 ✭✭✭conceited


    autoit


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    Evil Phil
    Registered Users Posts: 7,468 ✭✭✭Evil Phil


    Any chance of linking that? Or perhaps some capatilisation? Or even explaining what the f*ck you are on about? Not everybody knows what AutoIt is.

    fletch, you could probably write a Visual Basic for Application utility that will do this for you. If I remember correctly the Word Application object has an array of open documents. You could loop through that searching and replacing as you go.


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    fletch
    Registered Users Posts: 7,405 ✭✭✭fletch


    Evil Phil wrote: »
    Any chance of linking that? Or perhaps some capatilisation? Or even explaining what the f*ck you are on about? Not everybody knows what AutoIt is.
    Well everyone can use google....popped the word AutoIt into google and first link brought me to the correct site
    http://www.autoitscript.com/autoit3/


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    Gonzales
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    Hold down "ctrl" & press "H" this will give you the tool for both find & replace, works a treat.


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    MOH
    Registered Users Posts: 6,465 ✭✭✭MOH


    Gonzales wrote: »
    Hold down "ctrl" & press "H" this will give you the tool for both find & replace, works a treat.

    Not across multiple documents, it doesn't.


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    Cantab.
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,444 ✭✭✭Cantab.


    A very straightforward task.

    If you haven't got Perl already, then go ahead and install Perl. Once installed, open a Windoze command window and type:
    cd PATH/TO/FILES

    and 
    perl -pi -e 's/STRING/REPLACE/g' *.doc

    ,where

    PATH/TO/FILES is the directory containing your MS-Word files (e.g. C:\Documents and Settings\My Documents\Book)
    STRING is the string you wish to replace (e.g. I am gay)
    REPLACE is the new string (e.g. I am not gay)

    Boom, boom, boom.


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