Mass Image Change within RoboHelp 7 HTML

I am a new user to RoboHelp and have recently inherited a project form another person.
The project was created using RoboHelp 7 HTML
In this large help project there are over 700 images each named Image1, Image2, Imange3,.....Image700.
Now alot of these images needs to be edited, changed, or all together redone. Is there a way to do find for Image365 and replace it with an updated image called Img_BetterDescriptiveName?

Hi folks
In addition to what my esteemed colleague Peter offered, you would probably be able to use a good Find and Replace tool to accomplish this by having the tool trawl through all the HTML pages and perform the deed.
ReplacEm or FAR wold probably work well for this.
I'd avoid using the Find and Replace tool included with RoboHelp.
Cheers... Rick
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