Globally Changing all Instances of a CSS Style to Another

I'm working with RH6 (HTML). I'm curious if there is a
method/tool that will allow me to take all instances of a certain
CSS style and replace it with another (e.g., in the same manner
that you can using FrameMaker and Paragraph/Character Styles). I'd
like to be able to do it project-wide, but if it has to be done on
a topic-by-topic basis, that would be OK... I'm just trying to
avoid the need to locate each instance of the style and manually
change it.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!

Hey guys... thanks for the feedback. For starters, I
have created an external CSS (using RH)... So, I'm good
there. Anyway, my scenario is similar to what Peter pointed out: I
used a bad naming convention for a style, and applied it to a bunch
of content pages, and later came up with a better naming convention
(and a better set up for the style -- I know, I know... poor
planning on my part). I began applying the new style in future
documents, and I'd like to apply the style to all applicable
instances in the existing pages. So, I was wondering if a
tool/utility existed that would allow me to do so (since one does
exist in FrameMaker).
I could just let it go, but we intend to hire a new writer in
the near future, and I don't want that person to have to deal with
my inconsistency (not to mention, it would make things a little
easier when outputting to Word, in that I'll have fewer styles to
manage).
The concept of performing a search/replace for all instances
of the offending style name in the HTML files is a good one, and I
could try that (why are the simple solutions always the hardest
ones to realize?) Anyway, I'm assuming that all I would need to do
is perform a search for "<span class=Old_Style_Name>", and
change them all to "<span class=New_Style_Name>", correct?
And you recommend, "FAR" to do that?
Again thanks for the recommendations!

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