Options Menu
Change language
This menu item allows you to change the display language used by PowerPointPipe.
Start processing
Identical in function to the [Start] button in the lower half of the window.
Import Search/Replace List
Imports a list of search/replace pairs from Excel (.XLS files), Comma Separated Value (.CSV files) or Tab-delimited (.TAB files) formats. Note: Loading large lists from Excel is very slow - export your list to .CSV or .TAB and then import that instead.
You can import Unicode or special character replacements from Excel using this item. Note that some special characters may not display correctly - but the replacement will still occur correctly. The special characters are usually shown as question marks or hollow rectangles.
Columns required by the Import process (You can find sample import files in the Samples folder (in .tab, .csv and .xls format)):
| Find what |
Replace with |
Search Type |
Search Location |
Match Case |
Whole word |
Match Byte |
Prompt |
| The text to find. |
The text to replace it with. |
0 - Normal search (default)
1 - EasyPattern
2 - Perl regex. |
* See Search Location below |
TRUE to match case
FALSE (default) to find both upper and lower case. |
TRUE to match Whole Words Only
FALSE (default) to match anywhere inside a word. |
TRUE - Unicode (double-byte) characters match only Unicode (double-byte) characters
FALSE (default) - Unicode (double-byte) characters match their ANSI (single-byte) equivalents. |
TRUE to prompt on replace
FALSE (default) to not prompt on replace. |
| e.g. |
| تنانتانتا نتانتاهعغهع |
יעיעלחילחילח |
0 |
3 |
FALSE |
FALSE |
FALSE |
FALSE |
Search Location Column
This column indicates one or more locations to search. Specify it by ADDING the numbers next to the search locations from the list below - DO NOT ADD A NUMBER MORE THAN ONCE.
- 1 - Slides - look in each slide (default)
- 2 - Hyperlink addresses - look inside hyperlink addresses. To change the displayed text, use the 'Cells' option above as well
- 4 - Shapes - inside the text of shapes and grouped shapes
- 8 - Headers - search inside the left, centre and right header of each sheet
- 16 - Footers - search inside the left, centre and right footer of each sheet
- 32 - Built in properties - inside Subject, Title, Author etc fields
- 64 - Custom properties - inside custom properties defined by the user
- 128 - Notes - search/replace inside slide notes
- 256 - Links (OLE/DDE) - search/replace inside the filenames of links to other objects
- 512 - Slide Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of each slide's master (which can be different to the presentation master)
- 1024 - Master Slide - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the presentation Master Slide
- 2048 - Title Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the Title Master
- 4096 - Handout Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the Handout Master
- 8192 - Notes Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the Notes Master
e.g. to search inside Slides, Hyperlinks and Shapes, add 1+2+4 giving a column value of 7. To search inside Hyperlinks in Headers, add 2+8 giving a column value of 10.
Export Search/Replace List
This option exports all of the search/replace terms in the grid to a new file, in Excel (.XLS files), Comma Separated Value (.CSV files) or Tab-delimited (.TAB files) formats.
This is useful if you've modified the search/replace pairs or search options and need to export them back to a file. It's also very handy for prototyping the information required to generate an Import file (see the option above).
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