Search Multiple Word Documents (Case-Sensitive)

[simon.stewart]

Hi, I am not sure if this is the correct place to post this but I am
about to undertake a massive task involving searching over 2,000 word
files. I am looking for the letters H, M or L. They are all in capitals
and are also stand alone (so are not attached to other words, which
means I can cut out the capital H, M or L's at the beginning of
sentences).
So basically my task is to somehow search thousands of word files
looking for capital H's, M's or L's that are not part of other words.
Is there any way of doing this, it could save me over a week of work! I
hope this has made sense! Thank you,

Simon

 

[Greg Maxey]

Simon,

Not sure if this will work with that volumn of files, but have a look
at:

http://gregmaxey.mvps.org/VBA_Find_And_Replace.htm

If you put all (or several chuncks) of the files in a common directory
then you can use the "process batch of files" option to search each
file in the directory for your letters.


You will need to run the macro once for H, once for L, and once for M.

 

[simon.stewart]

Thanks Greg, I will look into it as soon as my company allows me to
install it on my computer, so I'll be off to go do some pleading....

Cheers!

Simon