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If you are working on a site with more than one page, applying a change can become difficult. It doesn't matter if you have to change 5 pages or 500 pages, locating every instance of code that needs to be changed becomes tiresome very quickly. For instance, say you want to replace every instance of color="red", and change it to read color="black". Tracking this down in one page would be difficult enough, what if you had to track it down in a thousand pages?

The Exteneded Search and Replace feature can simplify things by an incredible amount. With the Extended Search and Replace, you can change one file, ten files, even a thousand files, even if you haven't opened them in the editor. All you need to do is follow these simple steps:

1.) Go to Edit > Replace

2.) Edit the fields so computer knows what to find, and what to replace it with. In this example, we are replacing color="red" with color="black".

3.) Next you need to specify where the changes need to be made. If you choose Current Document, only the document you are currently editing will be changed. If you choose All Open Documents, anything you have opened in this session will be changed. If you choose Look in Folder, you can specify a folder on your computer, and any specified file will be changed. Use this last option with caution, as you will not be warned before changes are made. To be safe, make backups of all files before you make any changes.   Note: The find and replace feature when used to replace instances within a folder, will only work on files that have previously been opened by CoffeeCup HTML Editor. 4.) Click Replace all, and let the editor do the rest!