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WordPipe Search Replace 5.3 - User Guide and FAQ
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Running WordPipe
WordPipe has two very important pre-requisites when running
- Microsoft Word is not already running (especially with open documents).
- No documents are opened by someone else (no sharing)
Both of these situations lead to file sharing violations. WordPipe may appear to hang, and you will need to Alt-Tab to Microsoft Word to close the 'Open Read Only dialog box.
This leads to our two recommendations when running WordPipe:
Please close ALL other applications. This ensures that no programs have a Word document open.
- If WordPipe says that Microsoft Word is still running, you may have to press Ctrl+Alt+Del to access the Task Manager and kill of all instances of WINWORD.EXE manually.
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If you are running WordPipe across a network, file share or remote machine of any description, you MUST ensure that WordPipe has exclusive access to those files, either through running WordPipe after hours if you are guaranteed to have exclusive access, or by denying all users access to the files while WordPipe is being run.
Frequently Asked Questions - WordPipe Search Replace
- What is WordPipe?
WordPipe allows you to quickly and easily search and replace across thousands of Word documents.
It provides two search/replace modes:
1. Microsoft Word Compatibility mode. All the standard Microsoft Word search functions such as Whole Words Only, Match Case, Sounds Like, Wildcards etc are all available.
2. Using TextPipe Pro. TextPipe Pro performs multiple search-replace operations at the same time, including removing extra white space, adding left and right margins, headers, footers and line numbers, as well as
WordPipe allows all user settings to be saved and opened so that the same tasks can be repeated in the future without re-keying.
- How can I use WordPipe?
Just imagine - next time your organization changes its phone number, address, web site or CEO - just run WordPipe across your file server or website to fix all affected documents in one hit.
Use it for...
- Changing your organization's phone number, address, web site or CEO
- Performing server consolidations where document links need updating
- Server renaming or replacement where document links need updating
- Changing part numbers or SKUs across multiple files
- Removing digitized signatures from documents prior to converting them to PDF and placing them on the web
- Translating documents
- Correcting OCR (scanned) documents
- Detecting 'TOP SECRET' documents that have been saved in the wrong folder (by security identifiers located in headers)
- and much more.
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