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This menu item allows you to change the display language used by PowerPointPipe. To translate PowerPointPipe into your language, or to find what translations are available, please visit http://www.datamystic.com/languages.html

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Identical in function to the [Start] button in the lower half of the window.

Import Search/Replace List

Imports a list of search/replace pairs from Excel (.XLS files), Comma Separated Value (.CSV files) or Tab-delimited (.TAB files) formats. Note: Loading large lists from Excel is very slow - export your list to .CSV or .TAB and then import that instead.

You can import Unicode or special character replacements from Excel using this item. Note that some special characters may not display correctly - but the replacement will still occur correctly. The special characters are usually shown as question marks or hollow rectangles.

Columns required by the Import process:

Find what	Replace with	Look in	Match Case	Whole word
The text to find.	The text to replace it with.	0 - Slides - look in each slide 1 - Hyperlink addresses - look inside hyperlink addresses. To change the displayed text, use the 'Cells' option above as well 2 - Shapes - inside the text of shapes and grouped shapes 3 - Headers - search inside the left, centre and right header of each sheet 4 - Footers - search inside the left, centre and right footer of each sheet 5 - Built in properties - inside Subject, Title, Author etc fields 6 - Custom properties - inside custom properties defined by the user 7 - Notes - search/replace inside slide notes 8 - Links (OLE/DDE) - search/replace inside the filenames of links to other objects 9 - Slide Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of each slide's master (which can be different to the presentation master) 10 - Master Slide - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the presentation Master Slide 11 - Title Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the Title Master 12 - Handout Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the Handout Master 13 - Notes Master - inside the text, hyperlinks, shapes, header, footer, notes and links of the Notes Master	TRUE to match case FALSE (default) to find both upper and lower case.	TRUE to match Whole Words Only FALSE (default) to match anywhere inside a word.
e.g.
تنانتانتا نتانتاهعغهع	יעיעלחילחילח	3	FALSE	FALSE

Export Search/Replace List

This option exports all of the search/replace terms in the grid to a new file, in Excel (.XLS files), Comma Separated Value (.CSV files) or Tab-delimited (.TAB files) formats.

This is useful if you've modified the search/replace pairs or search options and need to export them back to a file. It's also very handy for prototyping the information required to generate an Import file (see the option above).