bulk replacing email addresses in Word docs.

[Maurice]

I am looking for a way of doing a bulk search/replace of email addresses in
our store of Word documents. Currently they have @mydomain.co.uk addresses
and I want to search & replace with @mydomain.com

I did a bit of experiment with UltraEdit32 on some sample docs and altough
it finds and replaces all occurances of the string the docs then cannot be
opened by Word. I suspect that there is some arithmetic checksum embedded in
the docs and Word wasn't happy as this wouldn't resolve correctly.

I could get the users to do it one-by-one but there are many hundreds of
templates and standard letters/documents that get emailed/posted out to
clients.

In some cases the email addresses are in the body of the docs and some have
them in text-boxes as part of header/footers. To go through each individual
document will take weeks so I am trying to find a better way of doing it. I
am aiming to keep the replacing string the same physical length as the
original by adding a space at the end.

If anyone has any suggestions I'd be greatly obliged.

Maurice Reed
IT Manager
International House London

 

[Maurice]

Well I am amazed that nobody came up with any ideas for this......


Anyway I have fixed it. After some more testing I realised that as I was
replacing .co.uk (6chars) with .com (4chars+1 space) that the edited doc was
a few characters shorter and this was throwing Word off. I tried again but
replaced .co.uk with .com (4chars+2 spaces) and this worked fine.

 

[Bob I]

UltraEdit32 isn't part of Microsoft Office so is somewhat difficult to
recommend how you use it.