Hay Robbie, thanks for that. I'll probably use that idea with Lapin. Its a bit easier to do and no compilation or dirty IDE's to work in. -------- Original Message -------- > From: "Sandberg, Robert" <robert.sandberg@xxxxxxx> > Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 12:58 PM > To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [vicsireland] Re: searching through multable text files > > Hi Darragh! > Well, not sure if there aren't easier ways, but a VBA routine would > certainly work. > You could call the individual files in a for each command, or if the > paths differ, create a while loop and at the end assign the next file > name to a variable. The search and replace mechanism is a simple matter > of if then else. > I say simple, but I'd say it would probably take me more than half a day > to compile the thing. > So if you have both time and inclanation... > Cheers, > Robbie > -----Original Message----- > From: vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:vicsireland-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Darragh > Sent: Freitag, 21. Juli 2006 12:26 > To: vicsireland@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [vicsireland] searching through multable text files > > > > Hello again, > > I need to do a search and replace through multable text files > recursively using Windows. Can someone suggest how this might be done? > > Thanks > > > Darragh > Website development and O/S technical support > http://www.digitaldarragh.com