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Originally Posted by Bunnelope
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My macro request is much simpler than that. I don't want it to make any grammar suggestions at all. I just want it to identify long stretches without commas or periods by highlighting them. The macro that I found can do the same thing, but only accounts for long sentences. I assume that is because it counts the number of words between periods. I want one that will count the number of words between either commas or periods.
My use for this is in prepping manuscripts for narration. If I can identify a long, run-on sentence ahead of time, I can look at it and figure out ahead of time where to breathe. I can then add a comma or another indicator manually to tell myself to breathe when I am recording the narration.
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If I am now reading you correctly, what you want is a macro that checks text and if there is a sentence that is longer than 30 words, you want to check for the presence of a comma and then check to see
- if there is a portion of that sentence between the start of the sentence and the first comma,
- or between that comma and the next,
- or between the last comma and the period, is more than ? how many? words, you want that sentence marked so you can review it.
This, vba can do, but you need to determine how many words are allowed in a phrase before a breath. What is too long for a sentence? For a phrase?