Project: Changing Your Company's Name in Documents

It seems like companies are constantly being bought, sold, and renamed, and now it has happened to your company. Your company's name was Widgets and Gadgets and now it's The Gadget Source. You now have about 100 documents in which you need to change the company's name. You also have to make sure that you convert any usage of the company's old initials, WAG, to the new ones, TGS. In this project you'll create one macro to perform both of these tasks.

Step #1: Do some planning.

Obviously you're going to be doing a search and replace. Actually you are doing two searches and replaces. You first need to search for Widgets and Gadgets and replace it with The Gadget Source. Then you need to search for ...

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