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Replacing hyperlinks (sorry for being dumb)

Posted: Thu Jun 19, 2014 8:11 pm
by paradilly
Hi All,

Sorry I must be missing something.
We are looking to purchase an app to replace hyperlinks in word documents and Wordpipe looks ideal however I cannot for the life of me work out how to use it.

I am testing with a word document simply doing a wildcard search for docx in the hyperlink but it doesn't seem to find it, I must be doing something fundamentally wrong.

What I am trying to achieve is to search a folder full of word documents and replace all the hyperlinks, some_link.doc with http://mywebsite.com/some_link.doc
Any tips would be much appreciated and we will of course buy the software.

Thanks in advance.

Re: Replacing hyperlinks (sorry for being dumb)

Posted: Fri Jun 20, 2014 3:03 pm
by DataMystic Support
Which kind of wildcards are you trying to use?

Within hyperlinks, Normal Search is normally checked, and hence any search/replace will be an exact match.
If you choose a Search Type of perl patterns, then search for

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.*
, and replace with

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http://mywebsite.com/$1
If you choose a Search Type of EasyPattern match, then search for

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[ 1+ char ]
, and replace with

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http://mywebsite.com/$1
If you need more help please let me know.