Batch find and replace

An example of what you want to do would be worth a lot.

Are you looking for a straightforward Find & Replace? or are you looking to "find" a number of individual text elements and combine them into one?

Hi Mary

I would be replacing text call outs something like the following B1, W1, F2, WD-100a, to WD-1. all are the exact same material WD-1

There would be other scenarios also where another group of call-outs are the same as another material.

Which version of the software are you using? That might make a difference.

I can't recall any key-ins for find/replace text, but that doesn't mean there aren't any. You could try searching this board because I think this has come up before.

It wouldn't be too hard to come up with a simple find and replace VBA macro...EXCEPT that "text" can be text elements, text node elements, notes, dimensions, or nested in cells. Some of which are not really accessible through VBA, and others that require some recursive looping to dig down to the text element itself.

The nice thing is that the Find/Replace dialog does actually recall some of the most recently used strings.

I can see what you want to do, but I'm not sure of a good way to automate it.

MaryB said:

It wouldn't be too hard to come up with a simple find and replace VBA macro...EXCEPT that "text" can be text elements, text node elements, notes, dimensions, or nested in cells. Some of which are not really accessible through VBA, and others that require some recursive looping to dig down to the text element itself

This freeware VBA macro already does most of that...

The VBA project is not locked, so you can view and edit the VBA code.

MDL SILENTLOAD FINDREPLACETEXT,CHNGTXT CHANGE DIALOGTEXT
FIND DIALOG SEARCHSTRING Original text string
FIND DIALOG REPLACESTRING replacement text string
CHANGE TEXT ALLFILTERED

Stick the above in a text file, edit the original and replacement text strings, load the file into the batch processor dialog and apply to the files you want to change