Thread: [Solved] VBA to highlight words if used too much
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Old 11-22-2013, 05:33 AM
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Yes, it's possible, but the processing would be time-consuming in a large document, since every string of Y paragraphs or Z characters must be checked.

Consider a document with 10 paragraphs with Y = 5. That's 6 separate checks (i.e. you need n-y+1 checks, where n = number of paragraphs). And that's just for one word. Do empty paragraphs count?

With the inter-character separation, you'd need to find every occurrence and count the characters between them. Do tabs, paragraph breaks, punctuation, etc. count as characters?
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