You don't need a macro for that - it can be done using just Find/Replace. If you want, though, you could use the macro recorder to record the Find/Replace process as a macro.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi,

Thanks for your response and apologies for the delay. The reason I wanted the macro is because the word(s) appear multiple times throughout the document and I want them to be a different style the first time they appear under a specific style but not all the times they appear.

I am already doing this using find and replace but it takes a while to see if it is the first time it appears under a specific style.

I am now thinking that it may be easier to continue to use find and replace for the process itself and then use a macro as a control to check that the text has only been selected once under a particular style.

Are you aware if there is a macro I could run to find all instances of a particular style (the styles will be character text rather than paragraph text) under another particular style (which will be a paragraph style) throughout a document?

Thanks