How to repeat a search followed by editing text?

Guessed · #13 08-23-2019, 05:37 PM

Since Greg's macro works by itself, you can choose an alternative approach to including it in your bigger macro - by using a pointer rather than the actual macro content.

Put Greg's macro in the same module as the larger macro. When you want Greg's macro to run, add a line in the bigger macro with the name of Greg's macro eg

Code:

Sub MyBigMacro()
  MsgBox "Working steps"
  ScratchMacro
  MsgBox "More working steps"
End Sub

Sub ScratchMacro()
'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
  Dim oRng As Range
  Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
  With oRng.Find
    .Text = "([a-z])(/)([a-z])"
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Replacement.Text = "\1 \2 \3"
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With
lbl_Exit:
  Exit Sub
End Sub

If you step through that code, you can see that one macro runs a second macro. This is often used with Functions rather than Subs but the principle is the same.

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