how do i search and replace in multiple word documents

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I have a requirement, that is to highlight a ref. code (that stands for our
college) that ocurs a dozen times in a 120 page document. This code also
appears in 20 or so documents. It is possible to highlight in phrase easily
using seach and replace in a single doc, but is it possible to apply the same
search to multiple documents? and if so how.
Thanks
 
Graemis said:
I have a requirement, that is to highlight a ref. code (that stands for our
college) that ocurs a dozen times in a 120 page document. This code also
appears in 20 or so documents. It is possible to highlight in phrase
easily
using seach and replace in a single doc, but is it possible to apply the
same
search to multiple documents? and if so how.
Thanks
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Hi Graemis

This article shows you how to do this with a Word VBA macro

Find & ReplaceAll on a batch of documents in the same folder
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm

If you are unfamiliar with VBA macros, this article may help you work out
how to use it

hat do I do with macros sent to me by other newsgroup readers
to help me out?
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/CreateAMacro.htm
 
Hi,

I managed to get this working, but it does not update occurrences in the
header/footer or document properties - is that possible?

thanks

Dan
 
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