Automatic Find and Replace

Is there any way to apply some kind of macro in CS3 that
would automatically run a list of commands to change things such as
specific strings of text to specific links I define. For example
any time the words "Jeff Jefferson" come up in my Dream Weaver HTML
file they are automatically changed to a link (to bio page) of
"Jeff Jefferson"?
I know I can save my find and replace as a query but is there
a quicker way that can run a list of these find and replace
commands with a single push of a button?
Thanks!

booova wrote:
>
> I know I can save my find and replace as a query but is
there a quicker way
> that can run a list of these find and replace commands
with a single push of a
> button?
>
Once you have saved the search pattern, you can, if you wish,
with one
push of a button, apply the search and replace to all of the
web pages
residing on your computer.
Mick

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Hi,
I would like to use Automator to automate (I know that sounds redundant) the following process.
1. Take a group of html files
2. Open each file so it can find and replace the script of any image folders
Example:
Change: img src="home_files/photo.jpg" to img src="images/photo.jpg"
3. Save & Close each file
I assume this this would have to be done in either AppleScript or Cocoa.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

you most definitely don't need Cocoa for something like that. if all you need is a straightforward search and replace in a bunch of html files you can easily do this with a shell script. If you need some more involved search and replace you have to explain what it is exactly that you want.
to automate direct search and replace you can do something along the following lines in automator
1. get selected finder items (this will select your html files)
2. run shell script action with input passed as arguments
<pre style="
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10px;
margin: 0px;
padding: 5px;
border: 1px solid #000000;
width: 720px;
color: #000000;
background-color: #ADD8E6;
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Find and replace in files does not refresh when changes are made

Using RH10, I search for a term with the Find and Replace Options pod. I use the Find Results list as a reference only, and open each file from the Topic List. I do this instead of opening the topics from the Find Results tab because I want to see the WYSIWYG changes. Anyway, I make my edits and delete the search term from each topic. Then, to make sure I have done all the work, I run the search again. I expect to see no or at least fewer matches than before, but I still get some or all of the same results as before, even though I double-check the Design and HTML views of the topics and even check the source of a topic separately in Notepad, all indicating that the search term is gone from the topic.
There is some ridiculous lingering or echo going on. I make sure to select Look in: <Current Project>, and the paths of all the Find Results files are fine. How do you refresh the search so that this echo doesn't occur?
Also, I close the Find and Replace Options pod, reopen it and start the search again, and the same results are there.
Message was edited by: DMilkes

Hi there
To avoid the message about the file being modified, close all topics in the editor before commencing with any find and replace operations. The message is produced because you have the aforementioned topics open in the editor.
As you mention "Find and replace in files", I'm guessing you are referring to version 8. I just opened version 8 and performed a find and replace to confirm. There is a button allowing you to clear all.
On the clicking and dragging to create a link, it's never worked that way. You simply cannot drag from the Topic List pod to do it. But you can from the Project Manager pod. Perhaps you should consider submitting a Wish Form to ask for the ability to click and drag from the Topic List pod to create links.
As far as rearranging your topics into different folders, as long as you do it from inside RoboHelp you shouldn't be destroying any links. RoboHelp will update references for you as you move things around. The only issue is if you are automatically creating your TOC structure based on the project structure. But usually that's a one time shot. From there forward you just manage things using the TOC editor.
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How do I find and replace recurring images?

I was wondering if I could find and replace recurring thumbnails in a document. I actually want to delete the specific thumbnail in mass.

Then Paste and Match Style option shift command v to remove the graphics.
It is under the Edit menu of most OSX apps.
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Hi, i am using xml in my workflow and want to be able to remove certain tags if they contain particular text.
here is an example of my xml structure…
<entry>
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    <tel>DEFAULT</tel>
    <address>DEFAULT</address>
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I am using this initial structure to set the paragraph styles to be followed when the xml data is imported.
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So i think this is what i need to search for in each case
"<name>DEFAULT</name>^p"
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Can this be done through scripting (ideally javascript)?
I have a little knowledge of javascript but am not sure how to search and target that kind of string in indesign...
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Hi,
Script should do it in two steps:
1. find all occurences of i.e. ">DEFAULT<"
2. remove whole paragraph which is a found_text's container.
For example this way -JS - (a textFrame filled with your text should be selected) :
var mStory = app.selection[0].parentStory;
app.findTextPreferences = null;
app.findTextPreferences.findWhat = ">DEFAULT<";
var myF = mStory.findText();
var count = myF.length;
while (count--)
     myF[count].paragraphs[0].remove();
rgds

Is there a script to find and replace glyphs?

I am using Adobe Illustrator CC 2014, Build 10.1.0.70.
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Hi Steve, thanks for your quick response.
My apologies I should've made myself clearer... I was more thinking about a script to run a chain of preset saved find and replace queries together. I have 48 individual glyphs from one typeface that I need to consistently apply across whole ducunents. Rather than click through each glyph for every single document I come across I was hoping there was a way to automate the process.
Thanks

Reformatting files in Dreamweaver: Batch series of .dwr files (find and replace) consecutively

I have to do complicated reformatting of an entire site. It's been simplified to a series of find and replace tasks for each file. Each find and replace string has been saved as a .dwr file. Currently I have to load and execute each .dwr file.
How do you batch process or automate this task in Dreamweaver? In other words, queue up a series of .dwr files to be executed consecutively?

OK here we go.
This example, a simple Dreamweaver Command Extension, will execute two Find and Replace commands in one go. (It can be any number of Find and Replace commands.)
The first command replaces "the" and "this" with "phe" and "phis". The second command replaces <ul> ... </ul> with <ol> ... </ol>. (These of course can be any Find and Replace.)
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Find and Replace Test.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML SYSTEM "-//Adobe//DWExtension layout-engine 10.0//dialog">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<Title>Find and Replace Test</Title>
<script src="Find and Replace Test.js"></script>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<form>
     <p>Are you sure?</p>
</form>
</BODY>
</HTML>
Find and Replace Test.js
function canAcceptCommand() {
    return true;
function commandButtons() {
    return new Array("Go!", "doIt()", "Cancel", "window.close()");
function doIt() {
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        replaceString: "ph$1",
        searchWhat: "document",
        searchSource: true,
        useRegularExpressions: true
    dreamweaver.replaceAll();
    dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace({
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        replaceString: "<$1ol>",
        searchWhat: "document",
        searchSource: true,
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    window.close();
Basically you can call any number of this pair of functions in the script:
dreamweaver.setUpFindReplace(findAndReplaceObject);
dreamweaver.replaceAll();
Place these HTML and JS files in this directory:
Dreamweaver App Directory/Configuration/Commands/
Then in Dreamweaver, open "Insert" window. (You need to have a HTML file open in order to make the Insert window active.) At the top of the Insert window there's a category dropdown menu ("Common" etc.). Do alt + click (ctrl + click) - then you'll see an item "Reload Extenesions" at the bottom of the dropdown. This will load this extension to DW. (Alternatively you can restart DW to load the extension.)
Now it's ready to run the Extension. Open a HTML document you want to modify. Go to "Commands" on the menu bar. At the bottom of the dropdown there should be an item "Find and Replace Test". Select and enjoy
Notes
This example is set to perform the Find and Replace on the current document. You can change the scope to the entire site, or the selected files, etc, just like in the Find and Replace dialogue box. The API doc is here: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/dreamweaver/cs/apiref/WS5b3ccc516d4fbf351e63e3d117f9e09bcf-7ed a.html
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Numbers find and replace

Sorry, my only "question" about this is WHY Apple would put such poor software on the market. Functions such as "find and replace" in Numbers are so incomplete and poorly designed they make the entire package useless. F&R only does text, cannot F&R in selected columns and.....will start to search an entire spreadsheet using the last "find" entry and/or starts to search before all of the "find" has been typed. When working with a large spreadsheet, Numbers will start its own find search, not allowing the "replace" entry to even be entered until it searches the entire spreadsheet (sometimes that requires force quitting Numbers to make it stop the useless search.)
I have been a Mac user since the very first 64K model. For Apple to release Numbers and then discuss how "elegant" it is an embarrasment to all Apple fans.
Mac in Smyrna

Jerrold:
Thank you for your response.
The problem is, I HAVE sent comments to Apple regarding Numbers before. As we all know, Apple has made many many decisions (automatic save, etc., etc.) without any attempt at asking their users if that change would be useful or a problem.
My hope is the dedicted Apple community might be able to get some attention for a long standing problem. Apple has issued multiple updates for numbers that do nothing to correct the problems real users have communicated to them.
I have been the "promoter" of Apple and Apple products in two large MS Windows dominated companies over the last 25 plus years. By putting products such as Numbers on the market to "business" users and then letting them discover things like Number's find and replace capabilities does a disservice to the entire family of Apple products in the business marketplace.
If the problem is with copyright problems with MS Excell, tell us. Don't keep telling us about elegant non functional software!
Mac in Smyrna

Find and replace

I have decided to do color correction and other retouching after I edit a multicam shoot. Is there a way to copy and paste the attributes of a clip to only certain clips in a sequence like a find and replace. I know how to copy and paste attributes, now I just need to copy the attributes of cam 1 to all the cam 1 clips, cam 2 to cam 2, and so on.

It can save a lot of time. I find that even for simple close-up interviews, small movements can cause shifts in the lighting and exposure such that I often wind up customizing the color on many of clips after pasting on the filters.
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Need advanced "Find and Replace" method

I have bunch of pages need "Find and Replace" work in html
coding, but I can't use DW's "Find and Replace" function to do with
it. Here's the sample code:
quote:
"<tr valign="top"><td align="center"><a href="
../photo/ccg/pages/Columbus Grill
M_jpg.htm"><img src="../photo/ccg/thumbnails/Columbus
Grill M_jpg.gif" border="0" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('
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<td align="center"><a href="
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W_jpg.htm"><img src="../photo/ccg/thumbnails/Columbus
Grill W_jpg.gif" border="0" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('
../photo/ccg/pages/50th Yard
M_jpg.htm','rr','width=386,height=306')"><br>
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<td align="center"><a href="
../photo/ccg/pages/Cookies Lounge
M_jpg.htm"><img src="../photo/ccg/thumbnails/Cookies
Lounge M_jpg.gif" border="0" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('
../photo/ccg/pages/50th Yard
M_jpg.htm','rr','width=386,height=306')"><br>
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<td align="center"><a href="
../photo/ccg/pages/Cookies Lounge
W_jpg.htm"><img src="../photo/ccg/thumbnails/Cookies
Lounge W_jpg.gif" border="0" onClick="MM_openBrWindow('
../photo/ccg/pages/50th Yard
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<td align="center"><a href="
../photo/ccg/pages/Corcorans
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You can see I need to use EVERY highlighted code to replace
each NEXT bolded code, highlighted code are deffirent but bolded
code are the same. Now I just do it manually, but there are
thousands of them.
Is any one has a better method using DW's "Find and Replace"
function to do this job automatically?

Using Templates with a 900 page site is a crime against
humanity. You reach
the optimal size for Templates between about 50 and 100.
The error you are getting suggests that there are coding
errors on the page
(perhaps even unrelated to ANY DW Template markup). We'd need
to see the
page to make progress with what that might be, as Alan says.
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news:ggs7fq$gnq$[email protected]..
>I am a little green to this all. I am trying to find and
replace a word
>inside
> the edit region and Dreamweaver will not change it,
because it says its
> inside
> a locked region, but its a editable region?
> I have about 900 pages I need to make this change on and
was relying on
> the
> find and replace tool to do that. I tried differn't
advanced options,
> nothing
> seams to change it. I am using cs3. Thanks for any help
>

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I understand I can turn off smart quotes so that I can type straight quotes, but I need to replace hundreds of curly smart quotes with straight quotes, is there a feature that will let me do this? I am using FM8.
Thanx,
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Alt0147 will give you beginning quotation marks
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ls

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[email protected]

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