Is there a way to search a Word document for word1 near word2? It would be
nice to be able to specify what "near"means (e.g., same sentnece, same
paragraph, within n words).

The following macro will find and select the text beginning and ending with
the words that it asks for if they are in the same paragraph. I could be
modified for the other cases that you mention.

Dim myrange As Range
Dim firstword As String
Dim secondword As String
Dim i As Long
firstword = InputBox("Enter the first word that you want to find")
secondword = InputBox("Enter the second word that you want to find")
i = Len(secondword)
Selection.HomeKey wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
Do While .Execute(FindText:=firstword, MatchWildcards:=False,
Wrap:=wdFindStop, Forward:=True) = True
Set myrange = Selection.Range
myrange.End = Selection.Paragraphs(1).Range.End
If InStr(myrange, secondword) 1 Then
myrange.End = myrange.Start + InStr(myrange, secondword) + i - 1
myrange.Select
Exit Do
Else
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
End If
Loop
End With

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Hope this helps.

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"Marshall Abrams" wrote in
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Is there a way to search a Word document for word1 near word2? It would be
nice to be able to specify what "near"means (e.g., same sentnece, same
paragraph, within n words).