HandyFile Find And Replace: Office Edition

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HandyFile Find And Replace: Office Edition is designed to help office people search and replace text in Microsoft Office documents. Just tell it what to find and specify the replacement text - save hours of tedious manual work! Of course, the program can handle not only Microsoft Office documents. You can search and replace text in any plain text file!

File searching, filtering and handling

• Searches files in one or more semicolon-separated folders.
• Supports plain text ANSI files; Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel and Microsoft PowerPoint files.
• Filters files by applying the search masks, for example: (*.doc;*.xls);
• Supports multiple semicolon-separated search masks.
• Filters files by:
  • date of creation, access or modification;
  • size.
  • read-only attribute. Can restore the read-only attribute on the modified files.
• Can create back-up copies of modified files in the specified folder.
• Configurable target storage location in which the processed files are saved.
• Other minor features.

Text searching

• Can do case sensitive or insensitive searches.
• Can search plain text (without regular expressions).
• Can search plain text in Microsoft Word, Excel and PowerPoint documents.
• Provides whitespace spanning options to ignore spaces, tabs and line breaks (for searches without regular expressions).
• Searches text with regular expressions.

Text replacing and processing

These options are divided into several subgroups.

General features

• Can replace the found text with the specified text.
• Can ask for replacement confirmation in plain text files via the Replacement Confirmation window.
• Provides an excellent Scenario engine to create batch replace job scripts which enables you to replace multiple text portions at once.

Advanced features

• Text Collector function to collect the found text portions and store it in a specified file - very usefule, for example, for gathering e-mail addresses of your clients.
• Text Collector can collect text specified in either Find or Replace fiels. When using regular expressions, this allows not just store the found text, but also transform the text according to the Replace field pattern.
• Can generate search report in the HTML format.

Regular Expressions

• Supports the ultimately extended regular expression syntax:
  • common search patterns (match any charachter, inclusive and exclusive character sets, greedy and non-greedy quantifiers etc.);
  • common replace pattrens (insert stored expression);
  • extended replace pattrens:
    • insert random identifier;
    • case transformation operators;
    • convert a symbol or a text portion to HTML entities;
    • path name resolvers to convert paths from absolute to relative etc.

User interface features

• Text viewer to browse through the search results.
• Binary viewer.
• Multiline text editor to specify and search text consisting of more than one line.
• Audible and visual alerts.
• System tray icon