We often joke about memoQ being the world’s most sophisticated find and replace tool but there is some truth in every joke. We know of companies using memoQ only for this, and not for translation.
Why is memoQ the ideal candidate for this? First, the different file filters import the documents into memoQ and extract the text. Then you can perform operations on the text and finally you export the documents from memoQ back into the original locations, with extracted texts.
Find and replace can be an operation performed on the text. You just need to copy source to target (there’s a command to do this) and perform find and replace on the target text. memoQ’s find and replace is quite unique: when you enable the List results checkbox and click Mark all, a new tab will open, listing all the expressions found and eventually replaced. You can perform the find and replace operation on all files at once. If you want, you can open the right document at the right location by just double-clicking on a row that shows a hit. Or you can decide to replace an expression or not.
Though a bit of an overkill for a global find and replace tool, memoQ can be a powerful companion not only to translators but also to document editors.