the code below is taken from M$ technet as an example on using vb script to do a replace all in word:
Const wdReplaceAll = 2 Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application") objWord.Visible = True Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("K:\Development\Fabricbase\prod\Test.doc") Set objSelection = objWord.Selection objSelection.Find.Text = "Contoso" objSelection.Find.Forward = True objSelection.Find.MatchWholeWord = True objSelection.Find.Replacement.Text = "Fabrikam" objSelection.Find.Execute ,,,,,,,,,,wdReplaceAll I did a rewrite and made it pythonic: from win32com.client import * wdReplaceAll = 2 objWord = Dispatch("Word.Application") objWord.Visible = True objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("K:\Development\Fabricbase\prod\Test.doc") objSelection = objWord.Selection objSelection.Find.Text = "Contoso" objSelection.Find.Forward = True objSelection.Find.MatchWholeWord = True objSelection.Find.Replacement.Text = "Fabrikam" objSelection.Find.Execute (Replace = wdReplaceAll) However, the document juz loaded up in word but no action was taken. I am using Word 2003. Any ideas? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list