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Brief instructions

1. In which files to replace
Enter an unlimited number of files of any size in the top window. It is possible to list them from an adjacent filelistbox, load them from a saved list, or drag them with the mouse.
 
2. Text to be replaced
Unlimited character string. Any of the special definitions can be used.
 
3. Text to replace
Unlimited character string.

Start the replacement with the Make replacement button and the result will be displayed on the Results tab (here you can double-click to open the selected file in the Notepad). If you want to make multiple different replacements in each file, you can use the change queue, which can also be imported from a CSV file.

Before replacing, you can look at Occurrences Overview to see all occurrences of the text to be replaced in all files, including the surrounding text.

Thanks to the special definition of the replaced text it is possible to specify e.g. replace TITLE=" + all other characters up to ", replace blabalbla + next 5 characters, replace John if not followed by Doe, or replace the entire line where X occurs. You can also copy, shuffle, replace or delete specific rows using their sequence numbers. It is also possible to add text in bulk to the beginning or end of each file, or to remove a selected number of characters from the beginning or end of files. You can also use regular expressions to define text to replace.

In DOCX, XLSX and PPTX files, the replacement is done inside the text part, so simple replacement without formatting is not a problem. You can view the text content (XML) in which the replacement is performed by double-clicking the file in the file list.

In DOC and XLS files, the substitution is done using Word or Excel, so it is necessary to have MS Office installed. It is not yet possible to use a special definition for them, nor to query before replacing.

For Files where changes have been made, it is possible to bulk change encoding to ANSI, UTF-7, UTF-8, UTF-8N (without BOM) or UTF-16 LE/BE. If you are working with many files with encoding e.g. in UTF-8 without BOM, it is better to choose Read in UTF-8 no BOM, because the automatic encoding detection slows down the replacement a bit.

Of course, there is the possibility of case-sensitivity, backing up the last changes made, showing the finding in the text and asking whether to change it, the possibility to keep the original date/time of the edited files, line breaks changes, switching language, etc. For most controls, a brief description is displayed when you hover the mouse cursor.

The application can be started with parameters in the command line, e.g. -writeLog:c:\hm_log.txt to continuously write the log to a file. This way you can also perform the entire replacement, including application termination. Details of the parameters here.

Back it up before replacing it, I'm not liable for damages! :)

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