[Graham Mayor]

You should have pasted it *over* rather than into the macro.
http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

Remove the lines

Sub lewis()
'
' lewis Macro
' Macro created 18/08/2008 by MedQuist
'
and the final
End Sub

and you may prefer the second version, which is nearer your requirement.


--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

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



lewisma wrote:
I copied and pasted your script into a new word macro, when i try to
run it i get the following error message.

Compile Error: Expected End Sub

Below is the script.

Sub lewis()
'
' lewis Macro
' Macro created 18/08/2008 by MedQuist
'
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


End Sub

Any ideas what i'm doing wrong here ?
Your help is appreciated, thanks

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
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

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