Now you can click Refresh button to have a file rename preview

To access these functions:

1. Run AKS Text Replacer

2. On “Step 1″ tab select folder where you want to search for files and select “Rename files and folders” option

3. Go to “Step 2″. Specify what files you want to find in “Search mask” field

4. Put some data in “Replace in file name” or in other fields below

5. You can start replacing right-away or you can click “Refresh” button to see the list of files how it is now and how it will be after renaming

This is because of different programs sort files in different way. How to prevent this problem? Just rename files and add “0″ before the digit, so the list will be file01.mp3, file02.mp3, … , file10.mp3. But for sure this task is time consuming.

How to do this with AKS Text Replacer

1. Start program. Go to the “Step 1″ tab, select “Rename files and folders” option.

2. In folder(s) fields specify the location of your files.

3. Go to the “Step 2″ tab. In the “Name to find” specify ##FileNumber.## and in the “Replace with” specify ##FileNumber2##.

4. Click “Start Replace” – that’s all!

That’s easy!

If you have more files and want them to look like file001.mp3 or even file0001.mp3, you should replace “##FileNumber2##” with “##FileNumber3##” or “##FileNumber4##”

Relevant articles

• If keeping order of the files is not you task, you can also use renaming with counter.

Here how it works:

1. Start AKS Text Replacer.
2. Select “Rename files and folders” option on “Step 1. Files & Directories” tab. In folders field specify the search in path.
3. Go to the “Step 2. Replaces” tab.
4. Enter in the field “Name to find” some mask for the files that you want to find or just enter * to process all files in the directory.
5. In the “Replace with” field put ##Counter4####OriginalExt##.

• ##Counter4## tells the program to use counter in 4 digits format like 0001, 0002, 0003, etc.
• ##OriginalExt## tells the program to keep original file extension.

Example: if the program will find “some document.doc” it will be renamed in “0001.doc”, then if the program will find “the next document.doc” it will be renamed in “0002.doc”.

Relevant article:

• If the order of the files and file names are important to you, the renaming of files with number in names might also help.

What if you have to search and replace text in the same set of files again? With the latest auto-replace feature of AKS Text Replacer you will not need to answer all these questions again. You can adjust auto-replace function of the program so it will:

• ignore certain files in search-replace operations
• or do replace for certain files silently
• or ask for your answer!

Do auto-replace for certain files or skip others with AKS Text Replacer

Make work easier with AKS Text Replacer:

AKS Text Replacer has a good amount of options to selectively go to look for and make the necessary changes in the files. This makes the task easier because you can do it from the root directory avoiding many repetitions of the same process. It also makes easier to avoid change files you want left unaltered.

AKS Text Replacer as time saver:

AKS Text Replacer actually does a lot more than I normally need, but I must say it does it efficiently. What I plan to do in the subsequent period of time – I wish I had more time to play! – is whether I cannot use AKS Text Replacer for batch-adapting words across several files, a task I sometimes need and never did in the batch form. That way I could buy myself some time to play perhaps!

AKS Text Replacer as time optimizer:

Renaming hundreds of files and directories was a major chore. With Text Replacer I rename files with a subject, date, sequence code that makes it easier to find the pictures from a specific time, place, or subject. While I also tag the metadata in each image coding the filenames means I can now search smaller sections of the archive to locate a specific set of images. Being able to go back through several years of images and give them filenames that make sense has made the task of archiving images a lot less problematic.

AKS Text Replacer helps computer consultant:

I have been using this program for about 3 weeks now. I have an extensive template collection (All generic). I use AKS Text Replacer to ready these templates for my personal and business lives.

Simple text replacement:

AKS Text Replacer has a very simple GUI that makes is easy to view all of my files. AKS Text Replacer is fast in its scans. It replaces all needed words. It give me a easy to view report of what was done. AKS Text Replacer has to be one of the top programs that I use. I would and have recommended it to all my friens and business associates.

AKS Text Replacer helps product development manager:

My work involves a lot of administration, most often filling the same documents on and on to get my projects approved. It’s only once approved that I can focus on my real job, creating new products. Needless to say that I tend to reuse as much as I can, to focus on what really matters and that’s where AKS text replacer comes into play.

AKS Text Replacer as time saver:

How do you feel each time you anticipate a tedious find and replace job to be operated manually across multiple files? Well I personally feel like it’s not only a waste of time, but also waste of life. So don’t search any longer AKS text replacer is not only the way to go, it is the most efficient way to spend time on what really matters and use computers for what they have been designed for…to work for you.

What software can do is replace necessary strings in your Word (.doc) file with something you need, keeping the format unchanged.

That is how it works.

Step 1. You need to prepare your Word file so it will be easier to find and replace something. For instance, in your document you have something like this.

Agreement between My Company inc. and John Smith
…

Signed 01.01.2011

Update the file,  so that you have something like this:

Agreement between My Company inc. and #Client Name#
…
Signed #Date#

Save resulted template:

MS Word Template File

Step 2. Create a copy of template file and open AKS Text Replacer. Point the program to the copy of the template file.

Step 3. In “Replaces” tab specify the data you need, for instance you can specify in the “Text to find” text box #Client Name# and in the “Replace with” text box the actual client name for this case.

Replace text in Word template with AKS Text Replacer

Step 4. Click “Start Replace” button – that’s all!

Note: before actually replacing #Client Name# with the name of the client AKS Text Replacer will show you the preview for this operation, e.g. how the text is now and how will it be after the replace.

Confirm replace in Word file

Also, you can use the same idea when you need to translate your Word document to other languages regularly, for instance, you can easily adjust the translation of all columns from English to German. This will keep you away from routine job!