Utility.

[Arthur]

I need a utility that users can use.
It has to:
1. Read through a number of Word files stored in a folder (about 50 files).
2. Find text in the files and replace it with the replacement text.
3. Save the changed files with a slightly different name so that the
originals are not changed.

Anyone know of a utility that can do this?

[malcolmlewis]

Hi
sed does that....

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[Heff]

Wordpipe

http://www.datamystic.com/wordpipe.html

I don't have firsthand experiene of this. I used an earlier version of their
product "Textpipe" many years ago and was impressed by its power and
versatility.

Heff.

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[Arthur]

Thanks for your reply. I'll check it. I also found bulk rename utility which
might do the job.
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[Thorsten Kampe]

* Arthur (Thu, 12 Aug 2010 15:05:56 GMT)

Not sure about the "save under slightly different" but PowerGREP should
be able to do this (if the format is actually docx and not doc):

http://www.powergrep.com/msword.html

[Adam Gabriel]

malcolmlewis wrote:

> Hi
> sed does that....

What he sed.

[Heff]

Oops! Just noticed that the licenses are not cheap.

Heff.

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[Matthew]

Sed is dead.

[Patrick Farrell]

http://www.findandreplacetool.com/find-replace-tool-word.html

That may not save to a different name but you could probably script
something to make a copy of the files in question to a temp folder, then
do the search and replace and then rename them and move them back?

It will handle sub folders, and you can setup multiple search/replace
pairs at once, handle password protected documents..

[Chris Cox]

Yeah.. like Unix is dead, Novell is dead, Apple is dead and Microsoft is
dead... you're right!

[tBM]

When you say "Word files", do you means files created with M$ Word or do
you mean files with words in them.

Just created a test.doc document with openoffice and tried using SED to
replace text as indicated in this thread, and while there was no error,
the text was not found nor replaced. M$ Word files are not in plain
text w/o an app that can translate.

tBM

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[Arthur]

Thanks for your reply. I mean files created using MS Word 2003 and 2007.
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[Arthur]

Thanks for your reply. I was looking for something with a GUI interface for
end users that will run under XP.
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[Arthur]

I mean the bulk rename utility.

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> It does not change text within the file as far as I can see.

> "Arthur" <art...@novell.com> wrote in message

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[Arthur]

It does not change text within the file as far as I can see.

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[Dave Howe]

That can't be right - Novell still has a Pulse :)

[Matthew]

Not a fan of Pulp Fiction I take it.

[cjcox]

oh... ha ha...
(If forget the forum I'm on sometimes)

[Matthew]

It's ok. I sometimes remember stuff.