[Graham Mayor]

You are welcome

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
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lewisma wrote:
Graham

Fantastic, your a genius, works like a charm, many many thanks for
your help with this, it would have taken me forever to figure this
all out.

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the second
list, with each item separated by a comma. You can use plain text or
character strings. If you use the former you would surround the text
with straight quotes as shown in the first line. In the second line
I have used the unicode numbers for the characters in the extended
character set of the Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol
command and browse through those available. Character 265B might be
suitable. Having chosen the character note the HEX number - here
265B, which you need to convert to its decimal equivalent. The
simplest way to do that is to use the Windows Calculator in its
Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type in 265B, then
click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you would get
9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string
instead - or if you prefer ChrW(43)

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything,
how do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead
of bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate
your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to
get the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro
and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script,
should i be doing it that way or is there another way to do
this ? Thanks

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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Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



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

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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