Re: [PCWorks] Find-Replace in MS Word
- From: "Harold B." <haroldbraun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 16:34:34 -0400
Regarding consistency, now I have some pages with lower case html and some with
upper case ... so much for consistency. However, I am being consistent in an
error I started when beginning the website. I have all files and folders
starting with caps. Of course it works but were I to start the site all over
again (that's a redundancy), I would never have a cap anywhere in an internal
URL. But since it still works (and for consistency), I'm continuing that mix in
the internal URLs ... meaning I'm now consistently making a foolish looking
URL, folders and files starting with caps.
Note to Karl Springer: I don't want to change an entire page or even one work
or phrase that appears all over the page; but rather, want to change different
words that appear in selected phrases (which are parts of coding that I
describe below; they are parts of links to different sections of the site).
Anyway, from the responses, and from the way it looks to me, I gather it cannot
be done. Changing an entire page, one word, even if it appears a million times,
is easy enough to do ... but that's not what I'm talking about.
Regarding the use of MS Word for HTML coding, I use it to backup all my pages.
What goes into the editor of my webspace provider (in my case it's Yahoo which
some in this group suggested I change when the contract is up and I will do
that), what goes into the editor I copy directly into various MS Word documents
(one for each large section of the site) and that is, to me, backing up a
website. I started that 13 years ago, not knowing any other way. I find no
problem with that other than having to reconfigure Word to show straight quotes
and not curly quotes.
So conclusion ... I'll leave the caps you see below as caps and not worry about
them. Reason I asked now is that I'm adding something to all the pages of one
section (backed up on one MS Word document) and it would have been a good
chance to change those caps you see below, all in one fell swoop if possible.
But it seems it is not possible. Highlighting and going to "change text case"
for each occurrence is a pain and as Hugh says, unnecessary. --- Harold
PS ... and what is the big change I'm making? I'll be adding a new page view to
all the pages (white font over black background). Using style sheets and css
folders, I'm getting carried away with this idea. Thank you, Hugh, for getting
me on this roll. It means again, opening up every @#$%^& file. :-)
--- Harold
> From: Harold B. <haroldbraun@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Hello again ... let's see if I can explain the problem. I'm using MS Word
> (actually Word:Mac 2008 but it probably works the same) and have a long page
> with some html tags where I want to make some changes from caps to lower
> case. Changes are as follows:
>
> html#ABCDEF .... the caps might be 3 to 6 different letters, and I want to
> change the caps to lower case (hundreds of them)
>
> a name="ABCDEF ... again, the caps might be 3 to 6 different letters, and
> again, I want to change the caps to lower case (I'm sure the same number as
> in the above caps)
>
> The reason I'm making these changes is that I once read that Hugh suggested
> that in CSS it is best to use lower case and while I'm making many changes on
> a website, I might as well make these changes too.
>
> Question is ... using Find-Replace with that special section usually found in
> the lower right hand corner, how might I make these wholesale all-in-one-shot
> changes? --- Harold (and happy holidays to all and if these are not your
> holidays, happy days to you too).
> ------------------------------
>
> From: Hugh Vandervoort <hughva@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> There's no real reason to change these now, as long as they work. I use all
> lower-case for consistency, i.e., I don't have to guess whether a
> link or file name begins with a lower or upper case letter because they all
> start with lower case.
> .......................................
> From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> You shouldn't use MSWord for HTML code, it can introduce errors into the code
> (from what I've heard, I've never used it personally for that).
> But if all you want to use it for is for quit editing of certain things, then
> just past the RAW HTML text into a webpage, it would be ok.
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