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Selecting sentence/paragraph with keyboard
I dont know exactly what you did to copy the macros and what went wrong. Try
this in order to copy the SelectCurrentParagraph macro: In Word, press Alt+F11. This will bring you to the Visual Basic Editor (VBE) that opens in a separate window. I suppose you saved the first macro in your Normal.dot. Therefore, in the left side of the VBE window, double-click Normal. Now you will see two folders, €śMicrosoft Word Objects€ť and €śModules€ť. Double-click €śModules€ť. Now you will see the modules (containers for macros) found in your Normal.dot. If you did not have any macros before yesterday, I think you will find only one module named €śNewMacros€ť - double-click that module. Now you should see the €śSelectCurrentSentence€ť macro plus the one you recorded (if you have more modules, you can double-click them one by one to find your macros). Copy the SelectCurrentParagraph macro from the newsgroup and paste it below the other macros. In order to make sure that everything is correct, select Debug (menu) Compile Normal - if any errors are found in the macros in Normal.dot, an error message will appear - hopefully, everything is correct. In order to save Normal.dot, you can press Ctrl+S in the VBE while Normal.dot is still selected (you can always see in the title bar of the VBE window which document/template and module you are working on.). When finished, close the VBE window. You can now assign a shortcut to the SelectCurrentParagraph macro. Hope this helps - once you get familiar with macros, it is actually helpful to look at (and edit or maybe write) macros from the VBE. You could also have a look at the code Word made for your en dash macro. -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word "Don Ellis" wrote: Lene, Thank you, for the the Esc warning and for the macros. Making macros in Word is hardly intuitive. I was able to create SelectCurrentSentence and assign it to Alt-S so I'm very pleased. That was the one I was missing the most. But when it came to creating SelectCurrentParagraph, I seem to only be able to overwrite SelectCurrentSentence no matter what I do. I followed along the linked instructions, but it seems I can only create a single macro. Oh, well, I'm happy with that one. Thanks very much... that one is great even if I never get another. Don "Lene Fredborg" wrote: An additional comment: It may take a little time getting used to F8 because it brings you into extended selection mode. You need to press ESC to return to normal selection mode (the current selection remains even if you press ESC). Note that you can use Shift+F8 to reduce the selection, e.g. from paragraph to sentence to word. Alternatively, you could use these macros and assign keyboard shortcuts to them: Public Sub SelectCurrentSentence() 'Selects the current sentence Selection.Expand Unit:=wdSentence End Sub Public Sub SelectCurrentParagraph() 'selects current paragraph Selection.Expand Unit:=wdParagraph End Sub If you need help on assigning shortcuts, see: http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Custom...roToHotkey.htm If you need help on installing macros, see; http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm -- Regards Lene Fredborg DocTools - Denmark www.thedoctools.com Document automation - add-ins, macros and templates for Microsoft Word |
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