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I want to search a series of Word documents for a specific mail merge
field and replace it for another field

e.g the filed: «Brk_name_street» ({ MERGEFIELD Brk_name_street \*
MERGEFORMAT })

needs to be replace by:

«Brk_name_street_no» ({ MERGEFIELD Brk_name_street-no \* MERGEFORMAT
})

in all documents

plz help


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Default Search and Replace Merge Fields

If you toggle the fields to show the construction, you can use the replace
function.
See also http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm

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Dandelion wrote:
I want to search a series of Word documents for a specific mail merge
field and replace it for another field

e.g the filed: «Brk_name_street» ({ MERGEFIELD Brk_name_street \*
MERGEFORMAT })

needs to be replace by:

«Brk_name_street_no» ({ MERGEFIELD Brk_name_street-no \* MERGEFORMAT
})

in all documents

plz help



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