Fireworks CS3 Menu ???s

I am using Fireworks CS3 an I have an number of pop up menus I have created for a site. I have made some up grades in the site and I now must go back and change 1 word in all the links off the menus. What file is created for each menu and hold the data that is in it. Can that file be edited with a word processor to replace the word and then copied back? I have a few thousand to change and hate to think that 1 by 1 is the only way. Ideas?

HI, I found the links in the HTML file and was wble to edit them their. After many hours in front of the screen just to brain dead to remember.
Thanks

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Businesses with mission-critical software usually are very careful to research that their software will run on any proposed new system or that alternative software is available. This is the main reason that Microsoft had to continue supporting XP longer than they intended. Too much business-critical software ran on XP but did not run under Vista and would take some time before it would be upgraded to do so...if at all.
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http://store.adobe.com/store/en_us/popup/software/fireworks4/systemreqs.html
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... It is probably not a huge problem to fix for an Adobe engineer.
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> When exporting a set of linked "Pages" to HTML, I was
getting an "internal
> error" and an incomplete set of pages.
>
> It would have been nice to get a more informative error
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> went about recreating the file a little at a time and
testing.
>
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> Some of my names included colons ( : ), which, while
happily accepted by
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was choking on the
> colons.
>
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of colons, they
> exported correctly.
>
> Firefox should have given me some warning about the
names or not allowed them
> in the first place, because many people will not know
what characters are /
> aren't acceptable in URLs.
>
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>
>

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~Michael wrote:
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TanisHarding wrote:
> Fireworks CS3 has potential. But it keeps crashing on
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it. Tried it again, and
> could not reduplicate the error. Though I did have Word
open the previous time.
>
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>
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>
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> prompt" in the menu.
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> hi
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>
> Ueli
>
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robweed7 wrote:
> Thanks, I am a beginner. And I understand the "(barf)"
with frontpage. Our
> church ordered frontpage for me to use, then I
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Hello all,
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> Hello all,
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> I started using fireworks cs3 to design webpages. I've
been using
> Dreamweaver
> cs3. I'm new to the whole flash designing. When you put
text and images
> to
> design your whole layout, is the text searchable by
search engines?
>
> I noticed that once you save your file as a swf when you
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> highlight any text to copy? I was wondering how I would
go about putting
> the
> meta tag info in and make the text so the search engines
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> scan
> the pages to pull up in search results?
>
> Thank you all!
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