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Advanced Find and Replace Changelog

What's new in Advanced Find and Replace 9.0

Dec 27, 2020
  • Improvement: Improved support of Microsoft Office 365.
  • Feature: search progress is displayed as a rotating wheel.
  • Feature: search in PDF files is working again.
  • Feature: added support of XLSM files (Excel Macro Enabled Workbooks).
  • Feature: added support of DOCM files (Word Macro Enabled Documents).
  • Feature: added support of PPTM files (PowerPoint Macro Enabled Presentations).
  • Feature: options Find and Replace in MS Office Formulas and Macros
  • Work for Find action now.
  • Improvement: improved support of Excel files in Office 2010.
  • Improvement: when the program is started first time then Windows's default charset is used for all find and replace fields.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 8.1 (Jun 18, 2019)

  • Feature: pressing F4 on preview will open file with a text editor and position the cursor at highlighted line.
  • Feature: added Ctrl+Q shortcut to quickly close the program.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 8.0 (Apr 3, 2019)

  • Feature: Support of MS Office 2016.
  • Feature: Experimental support of MS Office 2019.
  • Improvement: Improved support of MS Office 2013.
  • Feature: when using AFR with command line parameters it's now possible to produce several result files of different formats at once. You should use comma as separator in -result and -format parameters. For example:
  • Result "C:testresult.xml,C:testresult.htm" -format:xml,html
  • Feature: on main window - for Size field added "G Bytes".
  • Improvement: Improved Windows 10 compatibility.
  • Improvement: Improved user interface on High-DPI screens.
  • Bug fixed: Find in MS Office files option was not saved correctly.
  • Bug fixed: The program could freeze when Search For text was empty on Batch Replace.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.8.1 (Jan 12, 2013)

  • Corrected minor Windows 8 compatibility issues

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.8 (Sep 25, 2012)

  • Corrected issues related to showing web pages and help files

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.7 (Jul 23, 2012)

  • Added new options for Clear button and new Export Values button for Batch Grid

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.6 (Jun 23, 2012)

  • Corrected several user interface issues

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.5 (May 19, 2012)

  • Updated translation tags in GUI and updated all language files

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.4 (Apr 17, 2012)

  • More information about user interface is saved into configuration file

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.3 (Mar 24, 2012)

  • Added new option: Filter files by creation date; corrected a minor issue.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.2 (Feb 22, 2012)

  • Added possibility to use masks in folders to ignore list.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.1 (Jan 27, 2012)

  • Made several improvements and corrections on Source Files window.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 7.0 (Dec 13, 2011)

  • Added possibilities to rename or remove folders and remove files.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 6.5 (Oct 21, 2011)

  • Implemented several improvements for command line parameters

New in Advanced Find and Replace 6.4 (Sep 27, 2011)

  • Feature: new option Min Subfolder Depth located on menu Action - Options - General.
  • Improvement: added Arabic translation.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 6.3 (Aug 23, 2011)

  • Improvement: Save Results As folder location is saved into configuration file.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 6.2 (May 19, 2011)

  • Starts faster and improved Windows 7 and Vista compatibility

New in Advanced Find and Replace 6.1 (Mar 11, 2011)

  • Improved language file detection; updated language files

New in Advanced Find and Replace 6.0 (Oct 29, 2010)

  • Feature: possibility to use labels for masks and paths. For example,
  • instead of selecting *.doc;*.docx;*.xls;*.xlsx from Mask
  • drop-down-list you can simply select "MS Office files".
  • The same is applied for paths. For example, you can choose:
  • "Contracts" from Paths lists. It will automatically select, for ex.:
  • C:\Documents\contracts
  • D:\clients\contracts
  • etc.
  • New labels can be easily created, updated or removed from lists of
  • masks or paths.
  • Feature: new option: Max subfolder depth. Now it's possible to
  • specify how deep to search for subfolder. For example, specifying 1
  • means to search in current directory and in subfolders of this
  • current directory (but not subfolders of these subfolders).
  • Putting zero into these option (zero is default value) means search in
  • unlimited number of subfolders.
  • This option located on menu Action - Options - General.
  • Feature: possibility to select backup file name. In previous version
  • backup file back was created automatically based on current date and
  • time. Now you can select more clear backup file names. For example,
  • "replaced ZIP code in all companies". This is controlled by new added
  • option: Backup File Name. The option is located in menu Action -
  • Options - Backup.
  • Feature: new option: "Collect preview information for files of": any
  • size; maximum N MB. It's well-known that collecting of preview
  • information for large files is very time consuming process. Sometimes
  • processing of large file maybe 10 or 100 times slower if you collect
  • preview information. With this new option you can collect preview
  • information for example for files with size less than 2 MB.
  • Feature: added new command: menu View - Backup Folder.
  • This command allows to quickly open backup folder in Windows Explorer.
  • Note: default location of backup folder is:
  • \My Documents\Advanced Find and Replace\Backup
  • but location can be changed using menu Action - Options - Backup -
  • Backup Folder.
  • Improvement: saving to and loading from configuration file heights of
  • Choose Masks and Choose Paths windows.
  • Improvement: saving to and loading from configuration file height of
  • parameters panel on main window.
  • Improvement: backup options has been moved into separate Backup tab
  • on Options window.
  • Improvement: updated language files with new labels.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 5.2 (Oct 29, 2010)

  • Feature: added new button: Shell Association. This button is located
  • in menu Action - Options - Advanced. By pressing the button you can
  • remove Advanced Find and Replace from Windows Explorer. So "Search
  • with Advanced Find and Replace" text will be disappeared. By pressing
  • back on the button the association may be added.
  • Improvement: pressing Ctrl+A selects whole text in Text To Find or
  • Replace With.
  • Improvement: updated icons on Action menu.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 5.1 (Sep 19, 2009)

  • Improved Batch grid behaviour and Add To Batch command.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 5.0 (Jul 23, 2009)

  • Feature: Undo operation. After Replace or Batch Replace operation now it's possible to press Undo button to cancel this operation. Your modified files will be returned into original state.
  • Feature: Possibility to Show Line Numbers in preview. This option should be enabled in menu Action - Options - Preview - Show Line Numbers. Note: collecting line numbers information is quite consuming process. Use it only if you work with usual plain text files. We advice you to disable it while working with huge files.
  • Feature: New "Open with Editor" command. Now just right-click on any place of found text in Preview. You will see "Open with Editor" command. With this command you can open your favorite text editor and it will be automatically navigated to selected in Preview line and column numbers. Some popular editors are already pre-configured (Notepad, Notepad++, UltraEdit, Multi-Edit and TextEdit). But you can setup option for any other editor too on menu Action - Options - Preview.
  • Feature: "Automatically save modified files into backup folder" option. This option allows you to save modified files into selected folder. Complete structure of folder-free will be saved including drive name information. The option is located on menu Action - Options - Advanced. Automatic recovery from this folder is possible using Undo command.
  • Feature: Automatic saving of results files. Do you need to automatically track of which search and replace actions do you do? This feature is right for you. The feature is controlled by 3 options: "Automatically save results to file", "Results Folder" and "Results File Type" located on menu Action - Options - Results.
  • Feature: Possibility to disable showing the result list. This is a "must have" feature if you a working with large collection of files (more than 1,000 files). The search and replace speed can be radically increased (up to 60%). In case of working with large large collection of files we recommend to disable the results list on main window (simply uncheck menu View - Results) and enable Automatic Saving of results files (see previous option).

New in Advanced Find and Replace 4.2 (Nov 29, 2008)

  • Feature: "Search with Advanced Find and Replace..." will be shown for context menu (right-click on a folder) in Windows Explorer.
  • Feature: possibility to drag-n-drop folder or file from Windows Explorer into Search path field of AFR.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 4.1 (Oct 1, 2008)

  • Bug fixed: Confirm before replace option was not recovered with command line params.
  • Bug fixed: Using of char escaping in regular expressions. Now it's possible to use escaping in replace part.
  • Bug fixed: long loading of program with enabled Norton Antivirus.
  • Feature: Improved algorithm for file iterations.
  • Feature: Delete several files at one in Search results by pressing Delete button, Shft+Delete and Select+A is also supported.
  • Feature: possibility to search for files that don't include specified keywords.
  • Attention: feature of processing of large files by one line does not work yet.
  • Feature: displaying search information in xml results.
  • Feature: saving state of Search For and Replace With Widths in Batch Replace.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 4.0 (Jul 20, 2008)

  • Feature: Search in list of files.
  • Feature: Search in Results.
  • Feature: User Interface has now different themes.
  • Feature: new Choose Masks window simplifying mask selection.
  • Feature: new Choose Paths window simplifying path selection.

New in Advanced Find and Replace 3.0 (Nov 30, 2006)

  • Feature: Search in list of files.
  • Feature: Search in Results.
  • Feature: User Interface has now different themes.
  • Feature: new Choose Masks window simplifying mask selection.
  • Feature: new Choose Paths window simplifying path selection.