Macro Intro
What if you work on the interface team and are responsible for managing thousands of text files. After threats of malware your company is looking push security but there is a catch you are now responsible for updating all these .txt files with a new of code. Where do you even begin? This is a time consuming task and accuracy is critical which is why we created the Excel Find and Replace across Multiple Text Files macro! This is an Excel macro that will Find and Replace values in Multiple Text Files. This macro references 3 columns in Excel. In Column A are the values to Find. In the adjacent cell in column B is the value that will Replace what is found. Column C is optional allowing you an opportunity to populate the full path to any Excel Workbooks you want to search through. If nothing is populated in the Column C this macro will loop through all of the Excel Workbooks available in the Active Excel Workbook’s Folder Path. Once a Excel Workbook is opened this macro will loop through every Find and Replace value placed in Column A and Column B. This Excel macro is a great way to maintain Text Files that are routinely changing information.See it in Action
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Code
Here is the code for this macro. Make sure the following References are setup before running it: Visual Basic For Applications, Microsoft Excel 16.0 Object Library, Microsoft Office 16.0 Object Library, OLE Automation
Insider Content
Here is the Insider code for this macro. This macro will allow you to use Column C to list multiple folder paths to loop through all of the Text Files found within them. This varies from the Free Macro behavior in that Column C is used to loop through individual Text Files which can be labor some if you have 100s of files to loop through in a handful of Folders. Column C will remain optional and if nothing is populated in Column C this macro will look to the same Folder Path as the Active Excel Workbook, find the Sub-Folders, and loop through each one finding Text Files to complete a Find and Replace. This macro will even loop through Sub-Folders within Sub-Folders. Make sure the following References are setup before running it: Visual Basic For Applications, Microsoft Excel 16.0 Object Library, Microsoft Office 16.0 Object Library, OLE Automation
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