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I was hoping to be able to perform a find and replace on multiple documents
at once without having to open them, perhaps from the windows explorer view.
Is this possible and if so how do I do it? Thank you in advance.
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See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm and
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm .

nathanbgreen wrote:

I was hoping to be able to perform a find and replace on multiple documents
at once without having to open them, perhaps from the windows explorer view.
Is this possible and if so how do I do it? Thank you in advance.


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See also http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm

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nathanbgreen wrote:
I was hoping to be able to perform a find and replace on multiple
documents at once without having to open them, perhaps from the
windows explorer view. Is this possible and if so how do I do it?
Thank you in advance.



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