Hello,
I am working on automation where I need to replace multiple strings in Word document. At the moment I am using Word Application Scope + Replace. This works fine but sometimes I need to replace more than 50 strings so it takes almost a minute per document. Also, I will need to work with > 300 000 documents …
I was trying:
to use VBA (using excel) - not supported
to convert word into an HTML format and replace string here - this will crush the formatting
The thing is I need to preserve the format of the Word Document. So I cannot use string replace and insert replaced text back.
And at the top of that, I am more than curious if anyone was working with PowerPoint automation? Is there any shortcut instead of “click automation”?
I think that is as ‘native’ as one can get, unfortunately. However, I am sure some optimization could still be done on the script part to make the changes happen faster.
Not sure if you’ve used my sample script, but it saves the file after each change which would slow things down (for example).