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Text replace software and utilities – why you might need them

Most of our users are webmaster and programmers, who know exactly what they are looking for and what kind of software they need to do the same job, but in less time. For instance, by using replace with preview and not just blind search and replace.

But sometime we have questions like “I’m user of your … software and I’ve downloaded your text replacer – what is it? Why do I might need it?”.

Below are few key ideas about what kind of software is text replacer, who might need it, and how to find utility that you need:

  • Text replacer utility allows to scan specific files, find some text inside the file and replace it with another text.
  • Why not do this manually? If you have 2-3 files, you can do it manually, but if you have 20-30 files, or it is repeating task, then get a search and replace utility.
  • Why yours software? Why not freeware? We’d recommend to start with freeware software in order to understand what kind of features you need. In short: most freeware software will not have a preview function, their user interfaces unfortunately are not so friendly as they should be, most likely you will not be able to search for multi-lines, there will be very limited filtering options and ability to exclude something from search.
  • Why yours software and not some other commercial text replacer? Different work processes requires different search and replace utilities, we don’t know what specific is there in your daily routine and how you’d like to automate it, so trying several tools, including ours is a good idea. As stated above AKS Text Replacer is a features-rich text replace utility, also, we created products like Compare Suite and RoutineBot, so we know a lot about needs of webmaters and software developers.

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