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Lozfitz · 05-07-2021, 12:27 PM

This page has been incredibly helpful this week, but i've got stuck trying to update this code to only update headers.footers.
I have other code that can update headers.footers, but when I to combine yours and mine together something falls over, and i've worn myself out trying to find the issue.
Please can you give me some any advice?

FYI - I am at this point, as I need to update a footer on 700 documents, but the code previously whilst did the job it also incorrectly added a carriage return at the end. So now i'm trying to use the same code but now 2 carriage return are in the footer so the footer is no longer visable.

My combined code

Code:

Sub UpdateDocuments()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim strInFolder As String, strOutFold As String, strFile As String, wdDoc As Document, oRng As Word.Range, hf As Word.HeaderFooter
strInFolder = GetFolder
If strInFolder = "" Then Exit Sub
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
'Check for documents in the folder - exit if none found
If strFile <> "" Then strOutFold = strInFolder & "\Output"
'Test for an existing outpfolder & create one if it doesn't already exist
If Dir(strOutFold, vbDirectory) = "" Then MkDir strOutFold
strFile = Dir(strInFolder & "\*.doc", vbNormal)
While strFile <> ""
  Set wdDoc = Documents.Open(FileName:=strInFolder & "" & strFile, AddToRecentFiles:=False, ReadOnly:=True, Visible:=False)
  Set oRng = hf.Range
    With wdDoc
          With oRng.Find
            .ClearFormatting
            .Replacement.ClearFormatting
            .Forward = True
            .Wrap = wdFindContinue
            .Format = False
            .MatchCase = False
            .MatchWholeWord = False
            .MatchWildcards = False
            .MatchSoundsLike = False
            .MatchAllWordForms = False
            .Text = "^p^p"
            .Replacement.Text = ""
            .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

        End With
    'Save and close the document
    .SaveAs FileName:=strOutFold & .Name, AddToRecentFiles:=False
    .Close
  End With
  strFile = Dir()
Wend
Set wdDoc = Nothing
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
 
Function GetFolder() As String
Dim oFolder As Object
GetFolder = ""
Set oFolder = CreateObject("Shell.Application").BrowseForFolder(0, "Choose a folder", 0)
If (Not oFolder Is Nothing) Then GetFolder = oFolder.Items.Item.Path
Set oFolder = Nothing
End Function