Graham:
Thank you so very much for providing both of these macros. As soon as I am
able, I am going to try them out.
You folks out there who contribute to this forum constantly amaze me with
your abilities. I sure wish that one of you (or even a collaboration) would
take it upon yourselves to write a book which focuses exclusively on VBA for
Word using "real world" examples.
I have a series of about five books that I've attempted to use over the last
couple of years in an attempt to get at least a rudimentary understanding of
VBA for Word and have yet to stumble upon one that brings the learning
process "home for me".
Alternatively, if you know of a book that you would recommend, I would be
forever beholden to you or whomever. In the meantime, I shall continue to
rely upon all of you collective gurus out there in order to have my dilemmas
so billiantly addressed.
If by chance you're a "Yankee" enjoy your Thanksgiving holiday.
With much appreciation...
Rod
"Graham Mayor" wrote:
On further reflection, if you know what the numbers are the second macro
would do the lot.
--
Graham Mayor - Word MVP
My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org
Graham Mayor wrote:
This is easier said than done 
The following macro will convert numbers 1 to 10 to their text
equivalents. It may be possible to produce neater code, but this will
do the job.
Sub NumbersToText()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("1", "2", "3", "4", _
"5", "6", "7", "8", "9", "10")
With Selection
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = True
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = True
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
While .Execute
With Selection
If vFindText(i) = "10" Then
.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, _
Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:="=10 \*Cardtext", _
PreserveFormatting:=False
Else
.Fields.Add Range:=Selection.Range, _
Type:=wdFieldEmpty, Text:="=" & _
Mid(vFindText(i), 2, 1) & " \*Cardtext", _
PreserveFormatting:=False
End If
.MoveLeft Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
.Fields.Unlink
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
End With
Wend
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub
I don't see any simple way of converting numbers written out as text
to numbers unless there are a finite number of numbered texts for
which you could search and replace. That being the case you could
create a two column table in a Word document - here D:\My
Documents\Test\changes.doc - with the numbers written out in the
first column with their equivalents in the second then run the
following macro to replace items in the first column with those in
the second. It is going to take forever to run if you have a lot of
different numbers to cope with.
Sub ReplaceFromTableList()
Dim ChangeDoc As Document, RefDoc As Document
Dim ctable As Table
Dim oldpart As Range, newpart As Range
Dim i As Long
Set RefDoc = ActiveDocument
Set ChangeDoc = Documents.Open("D:\My Documents\Test\changes.doc")
Set ctable = ChangeDoc.Tables(1)
RefDoc.Activate
For i = 1 To ctable.Rows.Count
Set oldpart = ctable.Cell(i, 1).Range
oldpart.End = oldpart.End - 1
Set newpart = ctable.Cell(i, 2).Range
newpart.End = newpart.End - 1
Selection.HomeKey wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Execute findText:=oldpart, _
ReplaceWith:=newpart, _
replace:=wdReplaceAll, _
MatchWildcards:=False, _
Forward:=True, _
Wrap:=wdFindContinue
End With
Next i
ChangeDoc.Close wdDoNotSaveChanges
End Sub
RPMitchal wrote:
Summer:
Thank you for your response.
I could see where using *search and replace* would be the quickest
approach if all of the numbers were the same. I.e., change all
instances of the number 10 to *ten*. Unless there's something you
may not yet have told me - like perhaps a method using wild cards,
field codes, switches or something along those lines.
I was actually hoping for a process that might be a bit more
automatic through the use of a macro, whereby the coding actually
recognized a selection as a textual number or vice versa and
responded accordingly. The possibility exists that I may be expecting too
much in this
regard. However, I'll wait to see if any of the other resident gurus
*weigh in* on this situation.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Rod
"Summer" wrote:
Global Find/Replace would be quickest.
"RPMitchal" wrote in message
...
Word 2003.
I am working on a 500 page document and a working policy has been
put into place whereby all numbers between 1 and 10 should be
written out as text and
all textual numbers greater than 10 should appear as numbers.
For example, the number 5 should be written as *five* and the
textual word twelve should appear as 12.
Additionally, any numbers that appears between parenthases should
be removed
completely.
For example, in an instance that appears as *twelve (12)* the
result should
be merely the number 12.
Would it be possible to accomplish this conversion via a macro; or
even two
separate macros?
Hopefully, I've explained the situation in a way that makes sense.
It sure
would be a big help and save me quite a bit of time and tedium.
As always, thanks very much in advance.
Rod