What I wish everyone knew about Word with find and replace tool

If you switch on your pc & look at the task bar, there are more than 80% chances that you will end up finding a shortcut to Word or Word pad. This is one application that a work station or even a home station for that matter, just can’t do without. All our modern day documentary needs are catered to by this godsend from the stable of Microsoft. The best part is that it has got so many features that it makes itself indispensable & irreplaceable. With each new version, they end up giving it more teeth than before. The desirability level also goes up one notch above the last one. However, when it comes to handling files generated by this application in bulk, we do end up noticing that there is a need for more. Most of the people simply type in the original document & end up employing people to edit their files for them. The hilarious part in such a situation is that when we employ a person to handle this, we are in fact defeating the very purpose for which we began using a software instead of a person with a typewriter! Perhaps the worst job that can be given to a person in an office is that to find & replace in word. In case you are wondering what is so complicated & cumbersome about finding & replacing words in Word files, try handling a 100 files at once.

              

 Multiple files need multiple editing before they are suitable for the job at hand. In such a scenario, the best recourse is to use a find & replace software which would just find words/phrases in n number of files at once & replace them in a matter of minutes. When you go online searching for a virtual assistant to do this job for you, you realize that there are so many such utilities out there that you can’t make up your mind on which one would be perfect for you.

           Over a period of digging &analyzing, it can be safely said that the best word find & replace utility out there is the one that we have at hand. This is a simple software which is compatible with all the versions of Windows & MS Office that are in use right now. You just have to run this software & dump all the document files right in to it. You can even go ahead with folders if you want to. Then you just need to feed in your find parameter. These assorted extracts can then be replaced with the phrases that you want & you can even customize the font, format, etc. of what you are replacing. Even if you simply want to change the format of the existing words without actually replacing them, this utility is there to help you. Once it is done with this task, it also gives you a file log of all the replacements done. It gives this to you in either Excel or text format so that you can refer or show to the people concerned what exactly you have altered. Even though it sounds too effective to be real, this is a real software which is available to you at a bargain price that would be manifold less than employing a person just for this job. Give it a go to see how it can transform a snail paced business in to a gazelle of the business world in no time.