RE: Massive Word Doc changes - What would you do?

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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> Massive Word Doc changes - What would you do?
> 
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> 
> Besides quit or kill myself.
> 
> I have several hundred Word docs that need certain text 
> strings replaced. They also need a graphic on the front page 
> and in the footers replaced.
> 
> My predecessor used lots of section breaks in the docs (for no good
> reason) so I cannot just change one footer to fix everything. 
> I can sub out all section breaks, then paste in a footer with 
> what I need, but I have to be in the file to do it, as far as I know.
> 
> Anyone have a good multi-file find and replace that can be 
> used on everything at once?
> 
> I have a good one for text in HTML (RoboHelp), so I could use 
> the Word batch converter to turn all of my Word docs into 
> HTML and use that for the text strings, but the graphics in 
> the footers and the front page baffle me, as far as doing 
> something about them externally.
> 
> Any thoughts appreciated.
> 


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