Find and Replace? - mailmerge

Question

Does anyone know of a way to do a more complex find and replace? For example, I have many documents with merge fields. I need to be able to change the merge fields in these documents based on a list of definitions\translations. So in this example lets say I have 100 equipment leases created in M$ word saved as .dot. Each one the following merge fields exists, and I want to change them all at once to a new value as shown below.
{MERGEFIELD state} -> {MERGEFIELD ownerstate}
{MERGEFIELD city} -> {MERGEFIELD ownercity}
{MERGEFIELD zip} -> {MERGEFIELD ownerzip}
It's not so important that I be able to edit more than 1 document at a time than it is that I be able to make multiple edits at once.

Answer 1

OK so I was able to create a solution to my own issue. To do this I created the following code to do a find and replace based on a definition list in excel.
Option Explicit
Private MyXL As Object
Sub Test()
Dim WB As Excel.Workbook, WS As Excel.Worksheet, MyDefTbl As Excel.Range, MyRow As Excel.Range
Dim MySearchRng As Excel.Range, ReplacementRng As Excel.Range
Dim myDoc As Document
Call MyInitializeOfficeApps
'Define the Workbook that contains the Definitions
Set WB = MyXL.Workbooks.Open("E:\MailMerges\Definitions\Equip.xlsx")
'Define the Woksheet that contains the Definition list
Set WS = WB.Worksheets("Sheet1")
'Define the Range name that defines the Definition list
Set MyDefTbl = WS.Range("MyDefs")
'Define the Document to be changed
Set myDoc = ActiveDocument
For Each MyRow In MyDefTbl.Rows
Set MySearchRng = WS.Cells(MyRow.Row, 1)
Set ReplacementRng = WS.Cells(MyRow.Row, 2)
'MsgBox MySearchRng & "====>" & ReplacementRng
myDoc.Select
With Selection.Find
.Text = " MERGEFIELD " & MySearchRng.Text
.Replacement.Text = " MERGEFIELD " & ReplacementRng.Text
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next MyRow
Set MyDefTbl = Nothing
Set MyRow = Nothing
Set WS = Nothing
Set WB = Nothing
Set MyXL = Nothing
Set myDoc = Nothing
MsgBox "Complete"
End Sub
Sub MyInitializeOfficeApps()
On Error Resume Next
Set MyXL = GetObject(, "Excel.Application")
If MyXL Is Nothing Then
Set MyXL = CreateObject("Excel.Application")
End If
On Error GoTo 0
MyXL.Visible = True
End Sub