[lewisma]

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

[lewisma]

I forgot to mention that i'm using Word 2003 SP3
--
lewisma


"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

[Graham Mayor]

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

[lewisma]

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

[lewisma]

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
--
lewisma


"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
--
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

[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

[lewisma]

After some playing about i now have it working, but when i run the macro
inside word it only changes the upper right and upper left phrases, it
doesn't do anything for the bottom right and bottom left values, once that is
working i guess i just need to figure out what to replace the phrases with,
the font looks ok but i would really need the 2 lines for each phrase.

Thanks
--
lewisma


"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
--
lewisma


"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
--
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

[Graham Mayor]

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

--

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

--

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

[lewisma]

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
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

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

--

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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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

[Graham Mayor]

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

--

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

--

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

--

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