How can I delete pages with no highlighted text?

macropod · #1 04-30-2019, 02:48 AM

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Originally Posted by harpsichord

One little thing - it removed all of the text from the headers in the document, is this preventable? It's not that relevant though...

If headers are being removed, that indicates there are Section breaks on the pages being deleted. Since you hadn't mentioned that as a possibility, it wasn't coded for.

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Originally Posted by harpsichord

Another thing - there will be documents with newspaper articles longer than one page in which case this won't work because it will not preserve the whole article if a highlighted word is found only in one of the pages of the article, if I understand correctly how you set the range.

In other words, your reference to page deletion was nothing more than misdirection. It really would be helpful if you could actually specify what you want done up front, rather than waiting till something's been developed on the basis of entirely wrong specifications.

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Originally Posted by harpsichord

In that case, I'm guessing that it could be possible to set ranges between two article titles because they are the only size 14 bold text in these documents?

If your articles use one of Word's Heading Styles for the articles, that would be quite easy.

harpsichord · #2 04-30-2019, 03:38 AM

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Originally Posted by macropod

If headers are being removed, that indicates there are Section breaks on the pages being deleted. Since you hadn't mentioned that as a possibility, it wasn't coded for.
In other words, your reference to page deletion was nothing more than misdirection. It really would be helpful if you could actually specify what you want done up front, rather than waiting till something's been developed on the basis of entirely wrong specifications.

If your articles use one of Word's Heading Styles for the articles, that would be quite easy.

The specifications I wrote were not wrong, I am dealing with one page articles right now exclusively and I was looking for a solution for that specific problem. Now that I solved that thanks to you, I am trying to predict problems in the next phase with a different set of data, that's all.

If I knew all the relevant things I need to mention I would probably be able to do the thing myself.

The articles don't use Word's Heading Styles.

Thank you.

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