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How to find/replace delete include files in Frontpage

I have a site that uses two elements to the header page of each page. These are included in each page throughout the site via the following two lines:




Now I have redesigned my site and incorporated the changes into the /includes/header.htm file and so want to delete the references to the header1.htm file in each page. However, I cannot use the Find/Replace function to delete the second line above ... I always a "no occurences were found" message.

Is there a way to do this apart from the manual process of editing the code in every single page on the site?

Thanks for any help.

James Murrell

I think manual is the only way, do a find for just header1.htm it will then open the list and manully delete them

James Murrell

just a thought untick match case

James Murrell

also from memory I do not think you can use absolute paths in the FP include function

scarlett3

ASKER

Yes, I use the find function to locate the "../includes/header1.htm" references in the code, but there are a lot of pages to manually edit :(

It would save me a lot of time if there was a workaround.

brundo

If I've unserstood you correctly, you can do it with Replace function.

Just choose All pages under Find where and check Find in source code. Text  should come under Find what and Replace with should be empty.

If you don't like empty line which you get by this procedure, you can go further: chech Regular expressions and under Find what put \n (\n is for new line).

Advice for testing: test it on onde file only (without all pages checked).
Advice for the "serious" replace: backup your site first.

scarlett3

ASKER

Thanks brundo, but that is exactly what I had tried previously and this resulted in the 'No occurences were found' result.

If I manually open a page, the 'find' function does find the text when I select 'Current page' for 'Find where:'. However, when I try to find the text in pages that are not open, this is when I get teh no occurences were found result.

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James Murrell

have to agree with brundo if i have many to do i use Notepad++