How find & replace 1 word in mult folders

[Guest]

Thanks in advance for your help!

Quandry: XP Folders. I cant figure out the command to find and replace a
single word in a file folder and it's subsequent subfolders. I am trying
to create and organizing customer folders on my hard drive, so I make a
generic model folder and 20 sub folders with the word "name" in each folders
description as a placeholder. I want to make a copy of the folders as needed
and replace one word "name" with a client's name and cannot figure out how to
do it like you can in a Word doc.

If I do a edit:select all:replace file:rename then choose the first folder
and type over "name" with "Bob" and press enter, it renames all the folders
with the new name of the first folder and then uses a numbering system to
tell them apart. Not good.

So Please Help and tell me the command sequence and buttons to push to make
it happen. There has to be a simple way of doing this in XP without using
some database software tool like Access.

I looked in the help menus and faqs with no luck whatsoever. Somehow I
stumbled here and figure at least half of you know the answer to this just
like you know to bite the pointy end of the pizza slice first.

Thanks Mark

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Thanks in advance for your help!

Quandry: XP Folders. I cant figure out the command to find and replace a
single word in a file folder and it's subsequent subfolders. I am trying
to create and organizing customer folders on my hard drive, so I make a
generic model folder and 20 sub folders with the word "name" in each folders
description as a placeholder. I want to make a copy of the folders as needed
and replace one word "name" with a client's name and cannot figure out how to
do it like you can in a Word doc.

If I do a edit:select all:replace file:rename then choose the first folder
and type over "name" with "Bob" and press enter, it renames all the folders
with the new name of the first folder and then uses a numbering system to
tell them apart. Not good.

So Please Help and tell me the command sequence and buttons to push to make
it happen. There has to be a simple way of doing this in XP without using
some database software tool like Access.

I looked in the help menus and faqs with no luck whatsoever. Somehow I
stumbled here and figure at least half of you know the answer to this just
like you know to bite the pointy end of the pizza slice first.

Thanks Mark

It's probably quite easy to do this but it would be helpful if you could
give an actual example of what you're trying to achieve.

 

[Pegasus]

Thanks in advance for your help!

Quandry: XP Folders. I cant figure out the command to find and replace a
single word in a file folder and it's subsequent subfolders. I am trying
to create and organizing customer folders on my hard drive, so I make a
generic model folder and 20 sub folders with the word "name" in each folders
description as a placeholder. I want to make a copy of the folders as needed
and replace one word "name" with a client's name and cannot figure out how to
do it like you can in a Word doc.

If I do a edit:select all:replace file:rename then choose the first folder
and type over "name" with "Bob" and press enter, it renames all the folders
with the new name of the first folder and then uses a numbering system to
tell them apart. Not good.

So Please Help and tell me the command sequence and buttons to push to make
it happen. There has to be a simple way of doing this in XP without using
some database software tool like Access.

I looked in the help menus and faqs with no luck whatsoever. Somehow I
stumbled here and figure at least half of you know the answer to this just
like you know to bite the pointy end of the pizza slice first.

Thanks Mark

Did you post your expanded explanation? I did not see it!