Timeline for How can I find and replace words across multiple .docx or .txt documents?
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| Aug 9 at 14:26 | comment | added | Gryph | @benwiggy I did use it to search, find + replace across my set of docx, using the same instructions you provided above, so it does work.. though imperfectly. I'm really not sure why in some instances it correctly identified + replaced e.g. 'Mary Poppins' but in other instances it didn't. In almost all instances it didn't work, it did identify some instances in the same file - just not all of them. It worked correctly about 70% of the time, which is better then where I was when I started, so thanks again! | |
| Aug 8 at 13:04 | comment | added | benwiggy | @Gryph You can't use BBEdit to search .docx files, if that's what you mean. Also, it should be pretty solid. Do the IDs have characters that might be mistaken for wildcards or grep commands? | |
| Aug 8 at 11:40 | comment | added | Gryph | Based on this suggestion I've used BBEdit to F+R multiple IDs. Thank you! Unfortunately, for some reason, other IDs are not correctly searched/replaced, either in errors cropping up in the search process, or claiming success, but manual searching finding additional examples (this taking into account case sensitivity, whitespace, exact match). I think somehow .docx formatting creates a problem for the search, possibly via highlighting, paragraph formatting, or something else. So this is a partial answer and got the upvote, but will wait to mark solution pending other answers. | |
| Aug 8 at 10:00 | comment | added | nohillside♦ | Working with multiple documents is not a strength of Word ... | |
| Aug 8 at 9:17 | history | answered | benwiggy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |