Hi to all,

a friend of mine still uses Word 95 with some 'home-made macro recorder' macros. He now looks for a solution to use a string from the clipboard in a search and replace macro. Replace is easy (^c), but search is not.

As I never used WordBasic I do not know how
- assign a string to a variable
- get a text object from the clipboard.

If there is anyone who still knows WordBasic - or a good link - , please help .

Thanks
NP

You might want to start with:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/libr...ffice.11).aspx

You can also download the WordBasic help file from:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/...icCommands.htm
Note that you'll need to install the appropriate WinHlp file, from:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/917607/

See also:
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/WordDlgHelp.htm

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul,

thanks for the links, I did not know the first one.

I encountered this problem when changing from Windows XP to Windows 8.1.

Unfortunately the WordBasic Reference Guide has no example on how to access the Windows clipboard.

NP

I doubt you'd find such a process in WordBasic - even Word VBA doesn't have that (Word VBA needs an MS Forms Object Library reference to do it).

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

I fear so. I'm trying a workaround: paste - select - assign - delete.

It's a like a bad dream. The macro was recorded with a German Word and so is WordBasic - even with umlauts. I've never seen such a code before ... But I found a German - English WordBasic command list, so ist should work - somehow .

NP