[Nimbus]

I am trying to change the heading styles used in a document to different
heading styles, ie Myheading2 to Myheading3. I wish to do this on a number
of documents so as a trial I created a macro which converted just one of the
headings on one of the documents using find and replace.
I can't get the macro to work. When I run it nothing appears to happen.
However when I go back to using find and replace manually I find all the
formatting of the styles is attached to the find and replace boxes. ie
Myheading2 is set to 16 point bold and the find box also shows that it is
looking for 16 point bold. Myheading3 is set to 14 point underline and so is
the replace box. The macro is apparently doing something.
I have set up and used this kind of macro many times when I used Word on an
XP setup. I now use Vista. Do I need to do something different on Vista?

[Jay Freedman]

The macro recorder has a bug that prevents it from recording any style or
formatting information in Find and Replace operations. See the section
"Fixing broken Replace macros" in
http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/Macros...ordedMacro.htm for
instructions on how to fix the macro. In your case, instead of adding .Font
and .Replacement.Font statements, you will need the statements

.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Myheading2")
.Replacement.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Myheading3")

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Nimbus wrote:
I am trying to change the heading styles used in a document to
different heading styles, ie Myheading2 to Myheading3. I wish to do
this on a number of documents so as a trial I created a macro which
converted just one of the headings on one of the documents using find
and replace.
I can't get the macro to work. When I run it nothing appears to
happen. However when I go back to using find and replace manually I
find all the formatting of the styles is attached to the find and
replace boxes. ie Myheading2 is set to 16 point bold and the find box
also shows that it is looking for 16 point bold. Myheading3 is set to
14 point underline and so is the replace box. The macro is
apparently doing something.
I have set up and used this kind of macro many times when I used Word
on an XP setup. I now use Vista. Do I need to do something
different on Vista?

[Suzanne S. Barnhill]

See the "Fixing broken Replace macros" section of
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/...ordedMacro.htm.

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Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
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"Nimbus" wrote in message
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I am trying to change the heading styles used in a document to different
heading styles, ie Myheading2 to Myheading3. I wish to do this on a
number
of documents so as a trial I created a macro which converted just one of
the
headings on one of the documents using find and replace.
I can't get the macro to work. When I run it nothing appears to happen.
However when I go back to using find and replace manually I find all the
formatting of the styles is attached to the find and replace boxes. ie
Myheading2 is set to 16 point bold and the find box also shows that it is
looking for 16 point bold. Myheading3 is set to 14 point underline and so
is
the replace box. The macro is apparently doing something.
I have set up and used this kind of macro many times when I used Word on
an
XP setup. I now use Vista. Do I need to do something different on Vista?

[Nimbus]

Thank you both for the prompt replies.
I thought I had used that sort of macro before - It seems I hadn't. I have
looked at the reference you gave and it gives a very clear description of
what to do. Thanks again.



"Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote:

See the "Fixing broken Replace macros" section of
http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/...ordedMacro.htm.

--
Suzanne S. Barnhill
Microsoft MVP (Word)
Words into Type
Fairhope, Alabama USA
Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org
Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so
all may benefit.

"Nimbus" wrote in message
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I am trying to change the heading styles used in a document to different
heading styles, ie Myheading2 to Myheading3. I wish to do this on a
number
of documents so as a trial I created a macro which converted just one of
the
headings on one of the documents using find and replace.
I can't get the macro to work. When I run it nothing appears to happen.
However when I go back to using find and replace manually I find all the
formatting of the styles is attached to the find and replace boxes. ie
Myheading2 is set to 16 point bold and the find box also shows that it is
looking for 16 point bold. Myheading3 is set to 14 point underline and so
is
the replace box. The macro is apparently doing something.
I have set up and used this kind of macro many times when I used Word on
an
XP setup. I now use Vista. Do I need to do something different on Vista?