Re: [PCWorks] Find-Replace in MS Word
- From: "Clint Hamilton-PCWorks Admin" <PCWorks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pcworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2010 23:08:35 -0500
You can't change any of the case for files and folders because that
would of course also cause their paths to be 404 not found. If you did
that you would also have to change all the path URL's in the HTML code.
Case is not important for files and folders, it's more important for
HTML **CODE**.
Why would you use Word to backup a website??? Just save each page from
a browser toolbar if you don't have many. If you have a lot, copy them
using FTP if the host has FTP access. If they don't, any host worth
using has backup tools.
-Clint
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Harold B."
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"
>
> 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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