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Batch change Word docs WITHOUT macro?
Hi. I have several thousand Microsoft Word documents from which I need to
redact certain bits of information. This includes some text, and some images. Does anyone know if a tool I can download and run on a bunch of files, that basically does a batch search/replace? This would need to include images too, of course. I don't want it to remove ALL images, just to selectively remove some of them by name, or whatever. You get bonus points if you can suggest something that will do the same for PDFs, too :-) Thanks a lot, - Andrew. |
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Batch change Word docs WITHOUT macro?
It can't be done in Word without macros - see
http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm . I suspect it cannot be done in previously created PDF files at all. The images are a different issue. If you can come up with a means of identifying which images (particularly if they vary between documents) then it *may* be possible to handle the graphics also. SnagIt's printer capture driver is a handy way of creating PDF files based on graphical representations of the documents so that redacted text cannot be restored by the user from the PDF. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "Andrew Clarke" Andrew wrote in message ... Hi. I have several thousand Microsoft Word documents from which I need to redact certain bits of information. This includes some text, and some images. Does anyone know if a tool I can download and run on a bunch of files, that basically does a batch search/replace? This would need to include images too, of course. I don't want it to remove ALL images, just to selectively remove some of them by name, or whatever. You get bonus points if you can suggest something that will do the same for PDFs, too :-) Thanks a lot, - Andrew. |
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Batch change Word docs WITHOUT macro?
Hi Graham. I'd already seen your very helpful site during my earlier
search. Thanks a lot! I guess I'll brush up on my VB skills. - Andrew. On Mar 31, 1:07*am, "Graham Mayor" wrote: It can't be done in Word without macros - seehttp://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm. I suspect it cannot be done in previously created PDF files at all. The images are a different issue. If you can come up with a means of identifying which images (particularly if they vary between documents) then it *may* be possible to handle the graphics also. SnagIt's printer capture driver is a handy way of creating PDF files based on graphical representations of the documents so that redacted text cannot be restored by the user from the PDF. -- Graham Mayor - *Word MVP My web sitewww.gmayor.com Word MVP web sitehttp://word.mvps.org |
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