If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and the font they
are derived from in the macro I posted, it will do just that.. Digging
around in Unicode fonts for some suitable shape I came up with the following
which uses box drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly
standard font that you will have.
Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower right")
vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub
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lewisma wrote:
Graham
Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that the
shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So all that
needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by the shape. Does
this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks
It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list of
words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and more
particularly your requirement to have a shape that you can write in.
The logical shape would be a table cell, to which you could apply
borders to produce the four shapes and type in the space, but you
cannot intersperse table cells with text - each cell would have to
be on its own line.
Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of the box
individually.
You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous shapes, but
you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only alongside.
To do that -
Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
lewisma wrote:
Hi
I need to create a macro which will look through word documents. The
macro will need to look for certain words which are (upper right,
upper left, bottom right and bottom left). These words will then
need to be replaced by some kind of autoshape/symbol.
Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right hand
side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left hand side
(at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist can type
in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental grid. I know how to
record macros and i am happy finding and replacing words, but this
is proving quite difficult to achieve. Is there any sort of vb
script out there that will accomplish this, what is the best way to
get the end result. I am very new to VB so my knowledge is very
limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance
lewisma
lewisma