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Old 04-29-2019, 01:57 AM
harpsichord harpsichord is offline Windows 10 Office 2010
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Default How can I delete pages with no highlighted text?

Hello all,


I am using the following module to highlight specific words in my word documents:

Code:
Sub HiLightList()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim StrFnd As String, Rng As Range, i As Long
StrFnd = "cat,pig,dog,whatever"
For i = 0 To UBound(Split(StrFnd, ","))
  Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Range
  With Rng.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Text = Split(StrFnd, ",")(i)
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.Highlight = True
    .Replacement.Text = "^&"
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindContinue
    .Format = True
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = True
    .MatchWildcards = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With
Next
Set Rng = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
It's working quite well but since I am working with thousands of Word pages of text a majority of which are irrelevant for me and contain zero information I need, I would like to know if there is a way i could somehow insert a code that would delete all pages that contain zero highlighted words? I don't need to extract only highlighted words, I need to preserve the whole text (specifically, it's 1-page-long newspaper articles) in which the highlighted words were found. Is there a simple way to do this and what would it be?


I am quite illiterate when it comes to coding or VBA or pretty much anything so I am relying on the kindness and skills of others willing to help me and write this down so I can simply insert it


Thank you!

Last edited by macropod; 04-29-2019 at 09:17 PM. Reason: Added code tags & restored formatting
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