Orion SmartReplace plug-in (v2) release notes – Typefi Support

The Orion SmartReplace plug-in enables batch automation of common, time-consuming edits and complex text substitutions directly in your working Word document. This tool helps bring your content into compliance with your organisation's publication styles and standards, allowing you to focus on more substantive copyediting tasks. For more information about Typefi's Orion SmartReplace plug-in, see the help article, Orion SmartReplace plug-in or get in touch.

The latest version of the Orion SmartReplace plug-in is 2.0.25, released on 17 March 2026.

We release updates regularly, and it's our goal to make sure that our software works well, constantly—that Typefi continues to deliver every day. If you have any feedback or run into any issues, please drop us a line. We're happy to help.

2.0.25 — 17 March 2026
Requires Typefi Server 8.19 or later
Requires Typefi Orion for Word 1.0 or later

The Apply SmartReplace workflow action now detects when both added and deleted text in a dictionary rule are identical, and skips marking it as a tracked change—preventing unnecessary tracked changes from appearing in your document and in the output .cxml file.
Enhanced the logic to prevent invalid output by automatically disabling tracked changes when a rule adds or deletes an invalid XML snippet (for example, a missing end `</u>` tag).

1.0.015 — 30 January 2026
Requires Typefi Server 8.19 or later
Requires Typefi Orion for Word 1.0 or later

First customer release

This plug-in introduces two workflow actions: Convert AutoRedact dictionaries and Apply SmartReplace.

Convert AutoRedact dictionaries will import your eXtyles AutoRedact dictionaries (.xsb and .sub files) and convert them to .xml files.
The Apply SmartReplace workflow action uses pattern-matching rules (regular expressions) to automatically identify, format, and transform text within your document. Every modification is captured as a tracked change with a unique rule ID, allowing you to identify precisely which rule made each change.

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