We made this version more user friendly with its new stepwise process. It has Three steps:
Step 1 : Add Files - In this step you can add
MS Word (.doc, .docx, .rtf)
files, just click on "Add Files" button to open file dialog
box select files you want to add, you can
select multiple files. You can also add all files of a selected folder by
clicking on "Add Folder"
button, it automatically search the selected folder and add all the MS Word
Files.
Remove Selected : You can remove the
selected files from the file list, to select
multiple files in file list use Ctrl or Shift key. You can also remove files
by pressing DEL key from Keyboard.
Empty List : You can remove all files from
the file list, it will alert you before
removing all files. You can also remove files by pressing DEL key from
Keyboard.
Add Words : Press "Add Words" button to go
to next Step.
Add Words - In this step you can add words or phrase for Find What and Replace With List Set by Set or from a Comma/Line Separated Text file. You can type word and press enter or click "Add to List" button to add the same on Word List below. To add Words from TXT file, just click on "Load Words" and check the Find What or Replace With radio button.
Find What: Enter word in this text box to Find.
You can also find special characters like
Paragraph Marks, Tab Characters, Manual Line Breaks and all special
characters available in MS-WORD which is not listed
here.
Replace With: Enter word in this text box to
Replace. You can also replace special
characters like Paragraph Marks, Tab Characters, Manual Line Breaks etc. as
you do in MS-WORD.
Find Options: Before adding word set select your
desired find options.
Match Case: Check this option if you want your
search to be case sensitive.
Match Whole : Check this option if you want your
search to be word specific.
Use Wildcard : Check this option if you want
your search to use wildcard functionality of MS
Word (*). Eg. If you want to find whole sentence starting from a
Specific word or characters, just enter - If*. to
find whole sentence starting from If. (This is a very USEFUL
feature but you need to use carefully).
Format Serach Words & Final Process- In this step you can format or highlight your selected words or phrases for Find What List or you can also Edit the Text and change the Find Options. Click on a Word in the List to open format panel. Format Panel has four bars.
Remove Selected : Remove all selected words
from the List.
Empty Word List : Remove all words from the
List and Empty the Word List.
Reset Formatting : Clear all applied
formatting from the list.
Save Word List: To Save the word list for
further use. Click to "Save Word
List".
Import Saved Word List: To Import the word
list that you saved. Click to import file
on "Import Saved Word List".
Start: To open the
"File Folder Options".
Open Target Folder :To open Separate Folder
which will be selected to save the
processed files.
Show Log File: To open log File.
Process Files in Separate Folder : Check this
option if you want to process all files in
a single separate folder. Click on Browse button to select the folder. In
this option all processed files name include a
counter and suffix like "1_FR_1.doc", "1_FR_2.docx", "2_FR_3.doc"
Process in Native Folder of Files: Check
this option if you want to process all files in
their native folder.
Add Custom Suffix in File name: You can
define your own initial to processed files, if
you leave blank Suffix Text box then it overwrite the original files if
Native Folder option is selected means find and
replace process will be done directly in the original files..
Create Log File : Check this option if you
want to create a log files for analyzing your
file and word process.
Clear all Current Highlights: Check this
option if you want to remove all previous
highlighted text, it only clear Back-Color and ForeColor in file.
Overwrite : Check this option if you are
reprocessing the same files. It will overwrite
previous files.
Start Process : Press "Start Serach
& Replace" to start the Find
& Replace process.
Stop Process: To Stop the Find and Replace
process.
A log file created which has all files and word records, it shows in which file how many words are found & replaced and highlighted and you can also open each file by double clicking on file name direct from the log file itself. Click on Header to open File.