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m_s:
In my new job I'm responsible for updating several hundred inter- and intranet pages.  I work with probably a hundred authors, most of whom prepare their text in MS Word, which means their documents are littered with silliness like 'smart quotes' that our CMS doesn't recognize - so I have lots of ?s littering any text I cut and paste.  That's not a major problem since I can just save as plain text; I wish I could get them all to work in plain text, but that's not an option given most of their level of expertise.  What would be really helpful is if I could record a macro that would search-and-replace formatting within their documents with the correct html tags - so, rather than a 'bolded' word, would end up with 'bolded' with the correct html prefix and suffix (I tried to enter that here, but every time I do this clever bulletin board bolds the word!).  I can probably work this out myself (although I am having some difficulty working out how to get Word to find a variable string of formatted characters and replace that string removing formatting and adding code), but I imagine this is something others have also had to do, so can anyone advise me on an easy way of doing this?

mouser:
there are probably several tools that will let you set up such search+replace projects.. maybe some specific for ms word..
you might also check out this tool from one of the people who entered the BCB contest:
http://www.texttransformer.com/

im curious to hear that you go with in the end, and what others recommend.  keep us informed!

m_s:
No other replies?  I thought one of the AHK evangelists would have leapt on this one!   :)   I've figured out a laborious macro involving various searches and replaces - if you search for bolded £5.67, Word treats this as three words! '£', '5', and '56' - and then you have to do the '.' separately.  But now it seems my work has macros disabled universally!  :(  Back to the drawing board.

kimmchii:
how about this?
InfoRapid Multiple Files Search and Replace Across Multiple Files

rjbull:
how about this?
InfoRapid Multiple Files Search and Replace Across Multiple Files
-kimmchii (September 01, 2006, 07:34 AM)
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Or this: BK ReplaceEm
(100% free)

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