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Old 06-04-2019, 07:40 AM
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I'm a very noob user when it comes to word macros/VBA so I hope someone could help me without it being too much trouble.

I need a macro that will highlight every 3rd line throughout a word document.

Also if it could prompt the user to start from the beginning of the document or start from where the cursor is.

I really have no idea where to start with this and I'm hoping for some help with this if possible.
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Danny

This sounds a lot like a learning task assigned by a teacher so I don't want to just give you the answer.

The first thing to discuss is the fact that 'line' is not a good term to use since it is not a fixed or easily testable thing in Word. You should be working with 'paragraphs' instead of 'lines'.

To get started, try recording a macro of you applying highlighting to a selected paragraph of text. Once you have that minimal code, post it here and we can point you to how to start performing the other steps.
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Danny,


I'm not going to give you the whole fish and this is a bit clunky, but you can use selection and the wdLine unit to get this started:

Code:
Sub ScratchMacro()
'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
Dim oRng As Range
Dim lngCount As Long
Dim bExit As Boolean
  Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
  oRng.Collapse wdCollapseStart
  Application.ScreenUpdating = False
  oRng.Select
  On Error GoTo Err_Exit
  Selection.MoveDown wdLine, 2
  Selection.Bookmarks("\line").Select
  Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
  Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
  Do
    lngCount = 0
    Do
      Selection.MoveDown wdLine, 1
      lngCount = lngCount + 1
      Selection.Bookmarks("\line").Select
      If Selection.Range.End + 1 = ActiveDocument.Range.End Then bExit = True
      If bExit Then Exit Do
    Loop
    If lngCount = 2 Then
      Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
      Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
    End If
    If bExit Then Exit Do
  Loop
lbl_Exit:
  Application.ScreenUpdating = True
  Exit Sub
Err_Exit:
  Resume lbl_Exit
End Sub
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