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Old 08-14-2013, 06:35 PM
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i have a set of slides where there are certain info i wish to censor. some textboxes will display $345/mth, or $68,400/mth, $40/h, $500/day.

how do i replace these with blanks quickly using search and replace?
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Old 08-15-2013, 07:10 AM
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PowerPoint search doesn't support wildcards as Word does.

You could use a macro though

Sub use_regex()
Dim regX As Object
Dim osld As Slide
Dim oshp As Shape
Dim strInput As String
Dim b_found As Boolean
Dim iRow As Integer
Dim iCol As Integer

Set regX = CreateObject("vbscript.regexp")
With regX
.Global = True
.Pattern = "(\$)\d+\,*\d*\,*\d*(/)"
End With
For Each osld In ActivePresentation.Slides
For Each oshp In osld.Shapes
If oshp.HasTable Then
For iRow = 1 To oshp.Table.Rows.Count
For iCol = 1 To oshp.Table.Columns.Count
strInput = oshp.Table.Cell(iRow, iCol).Shape.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
b_found = regX.Test(strInput)
If b_found = True Then
strInput = regX.Replace(strInput, "$1***$2")
oshp.Table.Cell(iRow, iCol).Shape.TextFrame.TextRange = strInput
End If
Next iCol
Next iRow
Else
If oshp.HasTextFrame Then
If oshp.TextFrame.HasText Then
strInput = oshp.TextFrame.TextRange.Text
b_found = regX.Test(strInput)
If b_found = True Then
strInput = regX.Replace(strInput, "$1***$2")
oshp.TextFrame.TextRange = strInput
End If
End If
End If
End If
Next oshp
Next osld
Set regX = Nothing
End Sub

Should work

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Old 07-13-2019, 07:06 AM
KarenK13 KarenK13 is offline best way to use search/replace wildcards in this scenario? Windows 10 best way to use search/replace wildcards in this scenario? Office 2013
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PowerPoint VBA Macro to change font of words between quotes to italic needed. The code below would be perfect but I do not know how to manipulate it to change to italic. Thanks in advance for any help.
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Old 03-04-2023, 08:55 PM
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In case you land on this question in 2023.

JohnWilson's macro code is good, but it has a major flaw (it's MS, not really JohnWilson).

It will mess up the formatting for any text that it replaces (bold, italics, underline, font size etc. will change to the text just before the pattern being replaced). Unless you have a Powerpoint with no formatting, this macro has limited use in the real world. The worse news is that there is no easy / good solution to that problem.
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