Swap names with different spellings or names in word

aashish83

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Office Version
  1. 365
Platform
  1. Windows
I have a situation where in a word document there are two names written in two different spelling and i want them to swap them to each others position for e.g. First Name is Spelled "Aashish" and other is spelled as "Ashish" i need to make these changes to 200 different documents with same names with different spellings? hope its not to confusing...Anyway i can run a VBA code to do this....i can have one set of names in excel if that helps?
 

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