Thank you! That's perfect!
Judy Bragg
Technical Writer
HYPACK, Inc.
860-635-1500
On 6/4/2013 8:39 AM, Fred Ridder wrote:
You've already got everything you need in the standard Find/Change.
Here are the steps:
1) Define a new variable.
2) Manually insert it once into the document
3) Select the instance of the variable you just inserted, and then copy it
4) In the Find/Change dialog set up the find criteria, and in the
Change box choose "By pasting"
5) Run the Find/Change
-Fred Ridder
> Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2013 08:15:02 -0400
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Search and replace with variables
>
> I'm wondering if there's a tool out there that will do a search and
> replace where the replacement is a variable rather than alternate text.
> I have a 1500 page manual where no variables were used. I'd like to
> implement them, but it's painful to think about doing it by manually.
>
> Any ideas would be most welcome.
>
> --
>
> Judy Bragg
> Technical Writer
> HYPACK, Inc.
> 860-635-1500
>
>
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