How to highlight text in a Word document using a word list from another document

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11-01-2016, 03:27 PM

macropod

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Changing:
.End = .End - 1
to:
.End = .End - 2
indicates you have some extraneous content between the 'find' expression and the end-of-cell marker. A space or paragraph break, perhaps?

As for:

Quote:

there is a little final problem: The replacement text keeps the column formatting (which I don't want).

I did warn you:

Quote:

The drawback with this approach is that the format of the replacement will be the same as whatever is in the table.

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Paul Edstein
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