# Applying Watched Words to existing posts

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/applying-watched-words-to-existing-posts/294028
**Category:** Support
**Tags:** watched-words
**Created:** [November 17, 2022, 2:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/applying-watched-words-to-existing-posts/294028 "2022-11-17T14:30:26Z")
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### Author: ![JammyDodger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jammydodger/32/254611_2.png) [@JammyDodger](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JammyDodger)
#### Post date: [November 17, 2022, 2:50pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/applying-watched-words-to-existing-posts/294028/4 "2022-11-17T14:50:52Z")

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There’s also an option to ‘Rebuild HTML’ in the post wrench menu which will rebuild them with the new rule in place. 👍

To do a significantly large amount you would need to perform a rake task on the server. You can read more about those in [Administrative Bulk Operations](https://meta.discourse.org/t/administrative-bulk-operations/118349)

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