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With the Version Information editor, you can add or delete string blocks, search for values, and modify individual string values.

A version information resource has a single fixed-information block at the top and one or more string information blocks at the bottom. The top block has both editable numeric boxes and selectable drop-down lists. The bottom string block has editable text boxes.

You can sort the information sequence of the string block by clicking either the Key or the Value buttons. These buttons automatically rearrange the information into the selected sequence.

What do you want to do?

Edit a version information resource

Add a new string block

Delete a string block

Find a string value

To edit a version information resource

• Double-click the item you want to edit, and make the changes.

  Note   When editing the FILEFLAGS property page, you cannot set the DEBUG flag for .rc files because the Version Information Editor sets that flag with an #ifdef in the resource script, based on the _DEBUG build flag.

To add a new string block

1. Open a version information resource.
   
   
2. From the Insert menu, choose New Version Info Block.

   This command appends an additional string information block into the current version information resource and opens the Block Header property page.

3. On the Block Header property page, choose the appropriate language and character set for the new block.

To delete a string block

1. With a version information resource open, select one of the block headers.
   
   
2. From the Insert menu, choose Delete Version Info Block.

   This command deletes the selected header and leaves the remaining version information intact.

To find a string value

1. From the Edit menu, choose Find.
   
   
2. In the Find What box, select a previous search string from the drop-down list, type the string you want to find, or type a regular expression to match a pattern.

   Tip   Click the button to the right of the Find What box to display a list of regular search expressions. When you select an expression from this list, it is substituted as the search text in the Find What box. If you use regular expressions, be sure the Regular Expression check box is selected.

3. Select any of the Find options.
   
   
4. Click Find Next.