“Search not replace” function is another advantage of AKS Text Replacer
How many people expected in the early 2000s that in 10 years your computers would be packed with files? How many of them could predict emergence of new file types and programming languages? Perhaps, not many. Now, huge volumes of information is a reality. For many people this reality is pretty sad, as they have to process information to make an effective use of it.
We always amend text files, and information never stays static. Thus, replacement of words with new one is a very wide spread activity. For instance, you should change dates in 30 documents. What would you do? Open all 30 docs and manually introduce necessary amendments? Well, this is a stone age method, indeed!
Use of AKS Text Replacer will give you all possible guarantees that you will save your time and change ALL words or lines of text you wanted to change. AKS Text Replacer is a simple and effective text replacement solution, which, however, can be used as a search tool. So, if you want to search but not replace text AKS Text Replacer (despite its name) will do a great search work.
As said above it becomes increasingly difficult to search for text which can be found in different files and file types. AKS Text Replacer is a replace tool, but at the final stage you may choose search only option. Based on the search results you may want to perform some replacements.
Let’s analyze the 4 steps which you need to take in order to perform effective replacements.
At the beginning you have to choose folders in which AKS Text Replacer must perform search of files that might contain keywords. You might be also interested in certain files or files types. In such a case, please, specify which files or file types you want to use. If you do not have to have certain files in the search results it is possible to exclude them from the search. For example, you can look for txt files only, or for all file types except for xml extension.
One of the main advantages of AKS Text Replacer is possibility to preview files. In other words you can see the context in which keywords are used. This helps you avoid unnecessary replacements.
If you are looking for the same words or lines quite often, then create a bat file which will automatically start AKS Text Replacer with all necessary parameters.





















