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Information about Batch Replacer for MS PowerPoint

Download Batch Replacer for MS PowerPoint (584 KB) (version 2.4)

Batch Replacer for MS PowerPoint is a plug-in which helps to make a multi-replacement operations in MS PowerPoint files with using parameters from the MS Excel Translation table. One can use it if Useful File Utilities have already been installed in the computer. It can really save a great deal of time: no need to open each file and make the replacement and then open the other file and so on. All can be done in few seconds and as many files as you want may be involved.

Batch Replacer for MS PowerPoint offers such distinctive features as:

Support Unicode (foreign language) search and replace;
Multiple searches at one time;
Search and replace with all PowerPoint's options such as Case sensitive, Whole word etc.;
Create backup files for the processed documents;
Save processed documents to the files which names generate by mask;
Complete program documentation.

How to use it:

Create a MS Excel Translation Table. In column A enter the word or expression that should be replaced. In column B enter the word or expression it should be replaced by.
Select the needed files in the main program (UFU) – those, in which the replacement is to be done. The files can be selected by pressing "SPACE" (names of the files become red).
Open Batch Replacer for MS PowerPoint in "Plug-ins" menu.
Select the Translation Table created on the first step by pressing "Browse..." in the "Translation Table" panel.
"Case sensitive": Batch Replacer will find and replace only words, that have the same form in letters (capital or small) as pointed in column A of MS Excel table (for example, if there is "Hello" in Excel table and "hello" in the document, Batch Replacer won’t replace this word).
"Whole word": Search and Replace only whole words. Searching for the "cat" can search for the words which contain "cat". (Example - "category"). If "Whole word" is enabled then it will find the "cat" only and did not find "category".
Having marked all the nescesary options, press "Start Replace".
When the replacement is done, the statistics is shown: size before, size after, changed size, amount of changed words or expressions and status of the document (changed or unchanged).

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