Word Search and Replace Tool

There’s a high chance you have to deal with a great variety of text documents on a daily basis. It can easily get frustrating when you need to replace particular text strings in one or more documents. Luckily, specialized applications like Word Search and Replace Tool make it possible to easily look up and replace custom text strings.

As the name clearly points out, this application is dedicated to Word documents. It can process DOC and DOCX files, but also RTF documents. On the bright side of things, the program manages to perform its task without having to install Microsoft Office on your computer, so the only thing you need is the file.

As far as the visual design goes, the application comes with an organized interface, structured in three panels. Each represents a step in the operation, with the first letting you build up a list of files to modify, with rules defined and selected in the second step, leaving you to review and save the rules in the last one.

You can go ahead and load one or more files, and they can also be under different formats. Things get a little complicated when it comes to defining the rules. Although you start by specifying search and replace text strings, there are various parameters to choose, such as font dedicated style settings and attributes, including color.

The application can perform multiple operations on your files. This means that different rules can be added. Output text can be written with entirely different attributes and parameters, with the possibility to review and manage them in the first step. Rules can be saved to file in case they represent a common task you regularly have to perform on different files.

All things considered, we can state that Word Search and Replace Tool is a powerful solution to identify text strings of interest which need to be replaced. It can look up strings in multiple files according to nearly any font attribute. List of rules can be saved for later use, and output delivered to a custom location, while text can benefit from new attributes.