Word document batch amendments

[R8Steve]

I need to change the mailing address in approx. 800 letters. They are all .doc Microsoft word documents stored in a main folder that then has subfolders for the different letter types.
The text I would like to change is in this format –
Company
Company address
PO Box 12345
Country
Postcode

t: telephone number
w: e-mail address

It will need changed to new address/contact details in the same format.
I can’t download add-ins so would probably need to be some kind of macro/VBA code but being honest I have no idea where to start with this.

Can anyone help me from opening, copying, pasting, closing and saving 800+ word documents?

[geeks]

Mail Merge no good?

[R8Steve]

geeks said:

Mail Merge no good?

Sorry, should have explained, these are all individual mail merge templates that need amended.

[geeks]

R8Steve said:

geeks said:

Mail Merge no good?

Sorry, should have explained, these are all individual mail merge templates that need amended.

Ah, in that case you're on your own

Sorry not much help here.

[Mr Pointy]

Well Google came up with this:

https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm

You'd need the second procedure & make lots of backup copies first. You would probably need to run it once for every line changed

Or look at this:
http://www.office-words.com/index.html

[FunkyGibbon]

https://word.tips.net/T003783_Changing_Information...

May offer some help.

Good luck.

[R8Steve]

Mr Pointy said:

Well Google came up with this:

https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/MacrosVBA/BatchFR.htm

You'd need the second procedure & make lots of backup copies first. You would probably need to run it once for every line changed

Or look at this:
http://www.office-words.com/index.html

Thanks for that, i'd came across the first link there when i was searching earlier and i'll maybe sound a bit daft here but what is it i do with that information? Do you copy it into a new macro and just run it? I'm not very familiar at all with macros/VBA.

I do believe that would work though.

[mattley]

Notepad++ can do a find/Replace across multiple Files in a folder

I've had limited success using it for word Docs but it's free and there's no learning curve.