Search and Replace Merge Fields

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Dandelion - 18 Jan 2006 08:33 GMT

I want to search a series of Word documents for a specific mail merg
field and replace it for another field

e.g the filed: «Brk_name_street» ({ MERGEFIELD Brk_name_street \
MERGEFORMAT })

needs to be replace by:

«Brk_name_street_no» ({ MERGEFIELD Brk_name_street-no \* MERGEFORMA
})

in all documents

plz hel

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Dandelio

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Graham Mayor - 18 Jan 2006 11:34 GMT

If you toggle the fields to show the construction, you can use the replace
function.
See also http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm

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> I want to search a series of Word documents for a specific mail merge
> field and replace it for another field
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