Originally Posted by macropod

Your descriptions are somewhat ambiguous. For example, I still have no idea what you mean about "search from paragraph 1 to 5". It also seems you want more than strings like "WO 2015171641 A1", "US 2015322155 A1" and "EP 2943193 A2", but your "WO [0-9]{5,} [A-Z0-9]{1,2}^13*13[A-VX-Z][A-Z]" Find expression is confused at best (and that's not even a VBA matter). I have to wonder whether you even understand what it would do in this context.