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I want to modify many files in the identical way

Jan 9, 2005 5:42AM PST

I have 1000s of microsoft word files, all saved with an object (a logo) at the top. I want to remove the logo from all of them, then save them without the logo. Doing this individually would be prohibitive. Any ideas or known programs to help? Thanks.

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No "known programs". Such will be a custom job.
Jan 9, 2005 6:10AM PST

If you were lucky to find a good programmer my guestimate would be they could fix this with some code in less than a week.

It's not cheap since the Visual Basic or .NET system cost me about 1,400 bucks so custom programming has to pay that off.

Bob

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Try Power Desk Pro
Nov 28, 2005 12:14AM PST

It does a lot more than Windows Explorer but i am not sure what exactly you are trying to do. Several companies have owned rights to the program at one time or another so you have to do a search to find it.

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I'm afraid ...
Nov 28, 2005 6:23PM PST

Powerdesk (which is a program like Windows Explorer) isn't suitable at all to make changes inside MS Word files. You need Word VBA for that.

It's a pity if you have 1000's of Word documents with a company A logo embedded and company A is sold, and the logo has to be removed or replaced with a company B logo. It would have been much easier if the logo was referenced by a link (than you can simply edit the gif-file linked to). Or the files would have been in xml-format, and displayed and printed by means of a stylesheet. But once one makes the wrong choices in document management one has to bleed.

Kees

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I goofed
Dec 1, 2005 3:44AM PST

I thought we were referring to filenames. Sorry

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Is the logo....
Nov 29, 2005 7:23AM PST

placed in a "field" or within the header ?

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No codes needed...
Nov 29, 2005 9:29AM PST

Found a program which may be helpful-
check out WordPipe