Find and Replace across multiple topics

[rmmaryniuk]

I haven't used RoboHTML in a few years and am getting back to using it again. this is a fairly simple question, but the Help for RoboHelp doesn't seem to provide an answer.

  How do you do a simple find and replace across multiple topics?  I want to search for a text string and replace it with another text string.

[M_Jha]

Hi,

Have you tried to use the "Multiple File Find and Replace" option present in RoboHelp. You may access this option from Edit->Find and Replace in Files.

Before trying to find the files, please ensure that the where field in the dialog points to the correct location of your project.

Thanks

[Peter Grainge]

Welcome to the forum.

Maybe that's not the best tool for the job. It only works on a single line in the code and often the string searched for is across two or more lines.

Try FAR from http://www.helpware.net.

Whatever you do, backup first. Both RoboHelp's own tool and FAR work at code level so they can both wreck a project in seconds. Not a problem if you have that backup.

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