Replace automation tool is a must for every professional
If you think that replacing words and blocks of text is easy you might be mistaken. Sure, if you have to replace two words in a small MS Word document you will face no problems here. But if you have a folder full of file containing words or text elements than need to be replaced? What if those documents are plain text files or files related to programming languages? What if you do not need to replace all word but only part of them, depending on the file and the context?
Manual text replacement will take much time and effort. Besides, this method is extremely ineffective. In order to guarantee excellent results you need to use replace automation tool. Before choosing one you need to make sure that it can fulfill necessary tasks.
AKS Text Replacer is such a program. This is a very simple and easy to use text replacement utility, which, despite its simplicity, makes replacement process very fast and efficient. Besides, AKS Text Replacer is inexpensive software with a user friendly interface.
The whole text replacement process take 4 steps altogether. Let’s review each step and give a brief characteristic of most important and helpful features.
Use an effective replace automation tool - AKS Text Replacer
Replace automation saves your working time
Step 1. Here you have to specify folder or folders in which AKS Text Replacer should look for files containing words to be replaced. Thus, you choose any directory, including subfolders. AKS Text Replacer offers you to ignore certain folders, files and file types. If you make use of excluding options AKS Text Replacer will ignore them in search and replacement process. At the same time you can specify in which folders, files and file types you have a special interest.
Step 2. Replaces. Here you enter words or blocks of text which you want to replace and words or blocks of text you want to see in the amended version. For you convenience you may create Replace Groups (for instance most frequently used word pairs). Additional options such as ignoring letter case, using regular expressions and using special chars will make replacement more efficient. However, these options are helpful for programmers and IT specialists rather than for ordinary users.
Step 3. Date and size options. If you know approximate size of files which contain keyword you may enter it. The same applies to date on which files were created/modified/accessed.
Step 4. Replacement options. Here you choose actions AKS Text Replacer should take (overwriting original files, copying modified files to a folder etc).
