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From: kleef@cs.vu.nl (Patrick van Kleef)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Global Search & Replace in MS File?
Message-ID: <1103@ark.cs.vu.nl>
Date: Tue, 1-Sep-87 09:59:32 EDT
Article-I.D.: ark.1103
Posted: Tue Sep  1 09:59:32 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 5-Sep-87 04:01:09 EDT
Organization: V.U. Informatica, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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A friend of mine uses MicroSoft File to maintain a database
of names and addresses for his work at the Dutch National
Broadcast Corporation (NOS). This works fine except when
there's a change of telephone number at a large company, because
then he has to change all tel#'s for each name at that company
by hand.

What he could use is a global search & replace for MS-File, but
he nor I could find such a feat in the manual. A trick would be
to convert the database to Ascii text and then import it in
a wordprocessor to be changed and converted back into MS-File. But
this is bothersome. Does any1 know how to accomplish a global s & r
from within MS-File? Is there a DA to do the trick?

Any help is welcome!