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Replace logo in header for batch of word documents

Anonymous
2020-10-20T07:45:15+00:00

Dear Community

I need to change , replace a logo in the header of several hundred WORD documents, as our company changed logo, so I need to remove and  insert the new logo in batch file of word documents

Can you advise how I may do that   ?  -  I use Microsoft  office version 2016

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  1. Paul Edstein 82,861 Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-10-21T01:53:48+00:00

    You should not do that with existing correspondence - only to templates and boilerplate documents with ongoing use in your company. Changing copies of correspondence that has already been sent can have serious legal implications.

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  2. Charles Kenyon 166.7K Reputation points Volunteer Moderator
    2020-10-21T02:42:20+00:00

    Just pitching in with my two bits' worth as a lawyer. Paul is right. You should be changing templates, not existing documents. Very real legal ramifications changing archive documents. Documents that you have sent to others should not be changing, even a logo. They should stay as they are until purged.

    If you are using documents rather than templates as the base for new documents, that is a separate problem you should address now.

    Templates in Microsoft Word

    If you set these up to be templates, you could use a central repository of AutoText entries to hold various components and use AutoText fields in the templates. That way, you could easily make global changes by changing the AutoText. If you are sending documents to people who do not have the AutoText, you would want to unlink those fields. This unlinking can be done easily with a macro. (Generally, though, you do not want to be sending word documents out; send pdf instead.)

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  3. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-10-20T23:41:29+00:00

    Thanks, not sure what happened to the link in my post.

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  4. Suzanne S Barnhill 277.1K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-10-20T21:12:33+00:00

    It's possible that the page Doug meant to refer you to is http://www.gmayor.com/document_batch_processes.htm.

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  5. Doug Robbins - MVP - Office Apps and Services 322.9K Reputation points MVP Volunteer Moderator
    2020-10-20T08:04:19+00:00

    See the following page of Graham Mayor's website.

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