I can honestly say that this simple little tool has saved me dozens of hours. I have several websites that have hundreds and even thousands of pages. I used to dread ever having to make any changes to those sites, because it meant editing every page.
I knew there must be an easier way. I searched the web for text find-replace editors, and downloaded several. I also tried the built in functions of some HTML editors.
This little tool called TextWiz was the best one I found. Since then, I've used it to make tens of thousands of changes on thousands of web pages.
The program can find and replace multi-lines of text/code in any number of text or HTML files residing in the same folder. It also has a built-in text-tally tool, a search-only function (great if you're looking for a line of code and you don't remember which file it's in), meta-tag extractor, FTP client and more.
This program was written way back in 2000, and the guy who created it no longer offers it for download (I'm not sure why). Also it's been pretty much pulled off the web everywhere I can find.
Fortunately for you, the author used a free-distribution clause, which is written within the software itself, which is why I'm able to give it to you today for free.
The program is packaged in a ZIP file, so you will need an unzipper such as Winzip to open them. If you need a Zip program, you can download a free trial from www.winzip.com
This program runs on Windows, and there is absolutely NO support provided for it.