I want to create marco in Word which will remove text between 2 tags throughout a document, for example



{begin tag}
This is the text to be removed.
{end tag}

The tagged text will appear throughout a large document and will have multiple instances where it needs to be removed.

These tags will always be the same and the text needs to be deleted between the 2 tags. This will allow me to maintain 2 different versions of a similar report in one document and generate 2 final reports with a macro.

Any ideas if this can be done and if so how?

thanks, Matt

Hi Matt,

Providing the blocks of text to be removed aren't too long, you can do this with a wildcard Find/Replace, where:
Find = \{begin tag\}*\{end tag\}
Replace = nothing

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Thanks Paul. I will try this. The amount of text can be several paragraphs maybe even a page. Would that be too much?

Hi Paul - This worked great on my test document (after I turned on wildcards). Any ideas on what the limitation might be on the amount of text between tags?
thanks for your help, Matt

Hi Matt,

I'm not sure what the upper limit is, but a quick test with a 16-page block with 75k+ characters worked OK.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul- Thanks for your help on this. This has worked out perfect, I completed my macros and all is working great!!!