Batch change Word docs WITHOUT macro?

[Andrew Clarke]

Hi. I have several thousand Microsoft Word documents from which I need to
redact certain bits of information. This includes some text, and some images.

Does anyone know if a tool I can download and run on a bunch of files, that
basically does a batch search/replace? This would need to include images
too, of course. I don't want it to remove ALL images, just to selectively
remove some of them by name, or whatever.

You get bonus points if you can suggest something that will do the same for
PDFs, too

Thanks a lot,
- Andrew.

 

[Graham Mayor]

It can't be done in Word without macros - see
http://www.gmayor.com/batch_replace.htm . I suspect it cannot be done in
previously created PDF files at all.
The images are a different issue. If you can come up with a means of
identifying which images (particularly if they vary between documents) then
it *may* be possible to handle the graphics also.

SnagIt's printer capture driver is a handy way of creating PDF files based
on graphical representations of the documents so that redacted text cannot
be restored by the user from the PDF.

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[Andrew Clarke]

Hi Graham. I'd already seen your very helpful site during my earlier
search. Thanks a lot! I guess I'll brush up on my VB skills.

- Andrew.