WordPipe is used by IT personnel to update hyperlinks when a server gets renamed, by SMEs and large organisations when they change their contact details, name or office bearers, by translators to apply massive search/replace lists - the list of uses is endless.
WordPipe applies one or more replacements to thousands of documents, to every part of your Microsoft Word documents.
To use WordPipe, you simply add a list of search/replace pairs, and for each one, specify where in the document it should be found. Then you tell it which files to process - that's it!
Use it for...
- Standardizing corporate name changes such as your organization's phone number, address, web site or CEO
- Performing server consolidations where document links need updating
- Server renaming or replacement where document links need updating
- Updating documents to use Microsoft Namespace Server mappings
- Standardize Policy Headers
- Changing part numbers or SKUs across multiple files
- Removing digitized signatures from documents prior to converting them to PDF and placing them on the web
- Translating documents
- Correcting OCR (scanned) documents
- Detecting 'TOP SECRET' documents that have been saved in the wrong folder (by security identifiers located in headers)
- and much more.
Translators can use WordPipe's grid to define multiple search/replace pairs.
WordPipe Features
- New! Now searches and replaces hyperlinks inside footnotes, endnotes and comments
- New! Now can search/replace document templates
- New! Now can update ISO-9001 version numbers
- Search and replace inside form drop down fields
- Search and replace inside bookmark names to ensure consistency across multiple documents.
- Now handles locked fields - and restores the lock after making changes
- Search and replace inside the headers and footers of multiple sections
- Search and replace inside text boxes, shapes and inline shapes, and now inside grouped shapes
- Search and replace inside hyperlinks and hyperlink addresses
- Search and replace UNC link paths
- Search and replace inside field codes
- Search and replace inside built in document properties and custom properties such as Title, Subject, Author, Company etc
- Search and replace graphics and company logos
- Search Only mode - very handy for detecting where replaces would occur
- Fully Unicode compliant - search and replace international character sets (unlike competing products)
- Allows replacements to be longer than 255 characters (Microsoft Word limits this to 255)
- Search and replace with all Word's options such as Wildcards (pattern matching), Match Case, Whole Words only, Sounds Like, Find All Word Forms
- Works with Windows SharePoint Services document libraries
- Handles any number of sub folders
- Control the document types used - so you can process .doc, .rtf, .html, .htm, .dot, .txt, .asc, .ans, .wri, .mcw, .wpd, .wps or any custom document type
- Can be automated or scheduled via the command line, and settings are saved in an easy-to-edit or generate XML format
- Handles documents with password for open or modify
- New! Handles protected documents - and restores the original protection after making changes
- Handles mail merge documents
- Read only documents can be processed or skipped
- Read only recommend documents are processed with NO user intervention
- Easy to install/uninstall
- The original file date and time stamp can be preserved.
WordPipe Benefits
- Fast!
- No limit on the number of documents processed - use it across an entire file server or web server
- Translators can import search/replace lists from Excel, CSV- or Tab-delimited files
- Easy to use with integrated online help
- In addition to supporting all of Microsoft Word's search and replace options, WordPipe offers many more, such as hyperlinks, bookmarks, drop down fields and more.
- Stand-alone - doesn't integrate directly with Microsoft Word so it doesn't destabilize your installation
WordPipe Lite vs. WordPipe Full
Feature |
WordPipe Lite |
WordPipe Full |
Recommended for Small Office/Home Office (SOHO) Use (not enforced) |
X |
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Recommended for Corporate/Organizational Use (not enforced) |
|
X |
Suggested document volume |
Less than 100 |
100 or more |
Handle multiple search/replace rows (no limit) |
X |
X |
Handle multiple files and folders (no limit) |
X |
X |
Handle passwords |
X |
X |
Import lists from Microsoft Excel |
X |
X |
Change files on C: drive |
X |
X |
Change files on other drives (D:, E: etc) |
|
X |
Change files on network drives (\\server\share) |
|
X |
Update ISO 9001 revision numbers |
|
X |
Control which version of Microsoft Word to connect to (where multiple versions have been installed) |
|
X |
Restart Microsoft Word after processing a given number of documents |
|
X |
Restart Microsoft Word if unresponsive for XX seconds |
|
X |
Restart Microsoft Word executable directly after a Microsoft failure |
|
X |
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