Macro Needed To Convert Text in Word to Plain Text and Back to Word

rsrasc · #1 12-17-2015, 03:58 PM

I have a word macro enable file (name is "Original") that has a lot of formating on it and would like to save it in plain text format.

After this I would like to copy back the plain text format into the same word document (if possible--by erasing the old content in the original file)

I'm having a lot of issues trying to take out all the formatting from the original document.

What I'm doing right now is to save the content in plain text to notepad, erase the content on the word file and copy back the text information that is in notepad and copy back to the word file.

I would like to know if someone can help automating these steps.

Your help is appreciated.

Cheers!

macropod · #2 12-17-2015, 05:24 PM

Have you tried Ctrl-A, Ctrl-X, Paste Special>Text Only?

gmayor · #3 12-17-2015, 10:36 PM

Or perhaps CTRL+A, CTRL+Q, CTRL+Space and format Normal style

Code:

Sub Reset()
    Selection.WholeStory
    Selection.Font.Reset
    Selection.ParagraphFormat.Reset
    Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Normal")
End Sub

rsrasc · #4 12-18-2015, 02:29 AM

Thank you both for your responses. I appreciate it.

Macropod--I recorded a macro based on your instructions and is doing what I want.

GMayor--After running your code, is setting everything to normal except that the document have some text highlighted in various colors but the colors stays in the document, and would like the colors not to be there anymore.

Thanks again!

gmayor · #5 12-18-2015, 05:32 AM

Add the line

Code:

Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdNoHighlight

before End Sub

rsrasc · #6 12-18-2015, 07:13 AM

Hi Graham,

Thanks for the additional line.

It does the job.

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