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Question

Find and change in Word

by Jul 13, 2011 9:39AM PDT

I down loaded hundreds of MS Word files to a storage device. In the old days I could use the backslash, [ / ], in the title. Now when I try to open a file with that character I can't do it and I get this warning,

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Slowly, one at a time.
by Forum moderator Jul 13, 2011 11:47AM PDT

You can rename the file quite easily.

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I don't think you got my need,
by jimintenn Jul 13, 2011 2:09PM PDT
I have hundreds of file names using, "/". I know how to change an individual file name. Doing all the files would take forever as there are sometimes three or more backslashs to a name. The files belonged to my late son and I only need to open the file, save or delete then move on.

In Word I can use the find command and then change characters.

I am trying to find out if I can do this when I open a Folder in the finder?

I would like to find all the, "/", then change them to dashs, " - ".

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There is no "Find and Replace" in Finder,
by mrmacfixit Forum moderator Jul 13, 2011 9:56PM PDT

and the one in Word itself will not help you.

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