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Old 08-26-2019, 08:01 AM
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I want to search for a text and replace the text with a another word...I want to do this for all the documents. I am having a huge set of documents.

In notepad++, we can able to find and replace in all files inside folder/sub-folder

How to do the same in Microsoft word?

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See Find & ReplaceAll on a batch of documents in the same folder.
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Will it find a exact word and replace?
I want to match only if the word is single..

example,

quicklyreason
qucik is might be

Now when i say to find quickly and replace it should only replace quick instead of both quicklyreason and quickly

How to do this?
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See Document Batch Processes The replace option allows you to choose the parameters and will certainly perform your example correctly. You can also replace more than one word in the documents using the table option.
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It is not about replacing more than one word..I want only the exact word and not the word comibes with another text i.e binded like above

example,

quicklyreason
qucik is might be

Now when i say to find quickly and replace it should only replace quick instead of both quicklyreason and quickly
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Select the whole words only option in the search settings

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Thank you so much...
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