How To: Find and replace multiple words in one Click ?

I have an file with about 150 Pages where I want to replace a word about 500 time by one click.
Find and Replace works but only with one word.
How can I do it by one click ?

You can't, not in Acrobat anyway.
This is the kind of thing that should be done in the original file format,
not in a PDF.

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Did you try the "Find/Replace" dialog box?:
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How can I find and replace multiple words at once?

I need to be able to find and replace words into queens English. For example, I need to replace all instances of "color" with "colour," "tire" with "tyre" etc.
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Hi hobs707,
Please use the below code for your required output:
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Find and replace an item in one column only

I have tried and tried and I cannot work out how to find and replace an item in one column only.
For example one column has a letter followed by a number which varies in length.
I want to find and repace the letters with nothing leaving the numbers only.
But when I try to do this all the letters in the spreadheet are replaced, not just in the column I have selected.
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Hi 8'
Use a formula.
Insert a (temporary) auxiliary column to the right of the one for which you want to male the changes.
Assuming you description is accurate—every entry in the column consists of a letter followed immediately by a number of one or more digits—the problen could also be stated as "How do I strip the first character from a string?"
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Formula:
C2, and filled down to end of column: =RIGHT(B,LEN(B)-1)
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Select all of column C (except the ehader row cell), and Copy.
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How do I find and replace a word in PDF?

How do I find and replace a word in PDF?

In the Find window (Ctrl+F) there's an option to replace the searched text.
This is in Acrobat XI, and there's no Replace All-function.
On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 4:27 PM, claireb88184899 <[email protected]>

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Easiest way to do it is the following:
- Open the PDF file in Acrobat.
- Go to Tools - Forms - More Form Options - Export Data.
- Save the form data as an XML file somewhere on your system.
- Open XML the file in a plain-text editor (I recommend Notepad++).
- Let's say you want to replace all the years in the dates from "2013" to "2014". Do a global Search&Replace of "2013-" to "2014-" (I added the dash just to make sure that only date fields are edited).
- Save the XML file (maybe under a new name).
- Go back to the PDF file, and now go to Tools - Forms - More Form Options - Import Data.
- Select the edited XML file and import it.
- Done!

How to find and replace any string between " "

Hi everyone,
Here my sample
String szTest;
szTest = "Yellow banana";
szTest = "Blue monkey";
szTest = "Red mango";
szTest is only needed when it's in testing progress. Now I want to put all of that in the /*comment*/ so the released program won't run those code any more (but still keep szTest so I can use it for future develop testing).
So Here what I want after using the Find and Replace Box:
//String szTest; //Manual
/*szTest = "Yellow banana";*/ //use find and replace
/*szTest = "Blue monkey";*/ //use find and replace
/*szTest = "Red mango";*/ //use find and replace
I think I can do this with Regular expressions or Wildcards. But I don't know how to find and replace any string between " and ".
Find: szTest = " ??Any string?? ";
Replace with: /*szTest = " ??Any string?? ";*/
Thanks for reading.

Hi Nathan.j.Smith,
Based on your issue, I suggest you can try the Joel's suggestion check your issue again. In addition, I find a MSDN document about how to use the Regex.Replace Method to match a regular expression pattern with a specified replacement string,
maybe you will get some useful message.
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xwewhkd1(v=vs.110).aspx
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issue?
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How to find and replace text in Excel with Automator

I am new to Automator. And I would like some help how I can create a service that will allow me to find and replace certain text in Excel. I noticed that there is an action to do this for Word documents, but not for Excel document.
Any suggestions how I can do this?
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Easiest way to do it is the following:
- Open the PDF file in Acrobat.
- Go to Tools - Forms - More Form Options - Export Data.
- Save the form data as an XML file somewhere on your system.
- Open XML the file in a plain-text editor (I recommend Notepad++).
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Marga,
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How to find and replacing the path (url) given for data binding from type 'datasocket'

Hi everyone,
I'm sorry to pose this question as my own knowledge is still very limited.
I have an assignment (bachelor level). We were asked to adjust a plc program in step7 so that multiple of an existing sequence could be run indepently.
The settings for that sequence are controlled by labview. Sensor data is also viewed in labview.
There is an existing labview VI that was made by someone else before us. It uses 'Datasocket' type for data binding. Because we would like to adjust this VI to be used with the other sequences, we would like to change the original path or URL quickly, as in a 'Find&Replace' solution. Yet the find and replace only works for objects or text, not entries in the properties.
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Dear Niels,
Please find the attached example. I placed 5 controls on the front panel, all with a data socket URL (control 1 = URL1, control 2 = URL2 etc). Through property nodes I did the following;
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I downsaved the VI to 8.6, I'm not sure in which version you are working, if you have 8.6 or higher you are able to open it. Hope this brings you further,
Best regards,
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NI Netherlands
Attachments:
findURLexample.vi ‏12 KB

Find and Replace multiple line PHP comment

Greeting everyone!
Hopefully this question is asked in the right place.
I have about 300 php files that have multiple line PHP
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I am not sure of the exact syntax but open the find replace
function on a page and play with find syntax search feature from
the drop down menu . If I am not mistaken you should be able to to
search from the beginning of a comment tag to the end of one and
grab whats in between. From the help file
Use the Find And Replace dialog box to search for text or
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In the Search pop‑up menu, select Specific Tag.
Select a specific tag or [any tag] from the pop‑up menu
next to the Search pop‑up menu, or type a tag name in the
text box.
(Optional.) Limit the search with one of the following tag
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With Attribute Specifies an attribute that must be in the tag
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attribute or select [any value].
Without Attribute Selects an attribute that must not be in
the tag for it to match. For example, select this option to search
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Containing Specifies text or a tag that must be contained
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Not Containing Specifies text or a tag that must not be
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Not Inside Tag Specifies a tag that the target tag must not
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[Forum FAQ] How to find and replace text strings in the shapes in Excel using Windows PowerShell

Windows PowerShell is a powerful command tool and we can use it for management and operations. In this article we introduce the detailed steps to use Windows PowerShell to find and replace test string in the
shapes in Excel Object.
Since the Excel.Application
is available for representing the entire Microsoft Excel application, we can invoke the relevant Properties and Methods to help us to
interact with Excel document.
The figure below is an excel file:
Figure 1.
You can use the PowerShell script below to list the text in the shapes and replace the text string to “text”:
$text = “text1”,”text2”,”text3”,”text3”
$Excel
= New-Object -ComObject Excel.Application
$Excel.visible = $true
$Workbook
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#Open the excel file
$Worksheet
= $Workbook.Worksheets.Item("shapes")
#Open the worksheet named "shapes"
$shape = $Worksheet.Shapes
# Get all the shapes
$i=0
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Foreach ($sh in $shape){
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text
# Get the textbox in the shape
$sh.TextFrame.Characters().text =
$text[$i++]
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$WorkBook.Save()
#Save workbook in excel
$WorkBook.Close()
#Close workbook in excel
[void]$excel.quit()
#Quit Excel
Before invoking the methods and properties, we can use the cmdlet “Get-Member” to list the available methods.
Besides, we can also find the documents about these methods and properties in MSDN:
Workbook.Worksheets Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff835542(v=office.15).aspx
Worksheet.Shapes Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff821817(v=office.15).aspx
Shape.TextFrame Property:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff839162(v=office.15).aspx
TextFrame.Characters Method (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff195027(v=office.15).aspx
Characters.Text Property (Excel):
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/ff838596(v=office.15).aspx
After running the script above, we can see the changes in the figure below:
Figure 2.
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I have a column of type NCLOB with some text having url's in between as shown below:
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Requirement is to implement the find and replace functionality.
I just need to check whether the search text is present in the url or not?
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Here I can give you the hint like, always the url lies between the anchor tags *(<A </A>).*
Tahnks in Advance.

I had I think a similiar question the other day thay I Frank and Michaels answered for me.
not sure if I totally have what you want but.
WITH t
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<A http://forums.oracle.com> This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.This text is for testign purpose.
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the regexp substr just looks for the phrase oracle.com in the text between those two points.
Edited by: pollywog on Oct 6, 2010 8:26 AM

How to find and replace with sequential values?

im building a website. it contains 12 main images per page and luckily according to my design the source code per page contains 12 <img> tags only (rest is background and stuff). now for many pages i keep using a particular page as template and then change each and every image by browsing and clicking. Now i want to make my work easy.
the images that i want to add in every page are sequentially file named. 001.jpg , 002.jpg .......... and so on.
So is there some way that i can use find and replace , to find the <img> tags and fill them all with values sequentially that is the first <img> tag containts 001.jpg and the second containts 002,jpg and so on .
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Will they ever do this? I just wish Adobe would purchase TextPad and integrate it into Dreamweaver. In TextPad, from the manual:
Other TextPad options in the replacement string:
\i Generate a sequence number.
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SharePoint Calc Column - How to Find and Replace ANY & ALL Values with Something Else

Haven't found a solution on this even though it seems like it should be cut and dry.
I have a column containing characters "-" (e.g., XXX123-123-fjhrh-sdafsdfsd). I want to find every "-" and replace it with "@". Seems easy but so far haven't found a solution. My calc column always seems to stop at the first
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Closest I've gotten is this:
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RESULTS:
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