Find and Replace in all open Word documents

fletch

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?

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??

conceited

autoit

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.

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/

Gonzales

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

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.

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.