How to automate exchanging fonts in many documents?

We have font chaos in our InDesign technical documents and need to change all the "old" fonts to "new" fonts. We are not using a font manager program and I unfortunately have no knowledge of programming.
Does anyone know how I could easily automate this process?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

LindiLu88 wrote:
We have font chaos in our InDesign technical documents and need to change all the "old" fonts to "new" fonts. We are not using a font manager program and I unfortunately have no knowledge of programming.
Does anyone know how I could easily automate this process?
Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
I'm not clear about whether you mean changing a particular font to a differently-named font, or replacing "old" type 1 fonts with "new" TrueType or OpenType fonts with the same or similar names.
If there are paragraph and character styles with the same names in different documents, you can fix one document with the manual Find Font method mentioned in this thread, then synchronize the styles across files by using a book. Even if the documents aren't members of your normal books, you can create a new book to gather the documents, and apply the changes in one operation. Protect your work from unintended results by opening all the files before synchronizing them, so their changes won't be saved (synchronizing closed files saves the changes automatically.) For even better protection, save a copy of all the files. Packaging the book will do this in one operation.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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