Highlight every occurrence of ...

eduzs · #1 06-24-2020, 01:16 PM

How to programmatically (VBA) highlight in yellow any occurrence of " " (two blank spaces) in a document?
The code must select the character before and after, for the highlight to work, like

"? ?".
Thanks!

gmaxey · #2 06-24-2020, 01:42 PM

Code:

Sub ScratchMacroI()
'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
Dim oRng As Range
  Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
    With oRng.Find
      .Text = "  "
      .MatchWildcards = True
      While .Execute
        oRng.InsertBefore "~"
        oRng.InsertAfter "~"
        oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
        oRng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
      Wend
    End With
lbl_Exit:
  Exit Sub
End Sub
Sub ScratchMacroII()
'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
Dim oRng As Range
  Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
    With oRng.Find
      .Text = "  "
      .MatchWildcards = True
      While .Execute
        oRng.MoveStart wdCharacter, -1
        oRng.MoveEnd wdCharacter, 1
        oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
        oRng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
      Wend
    End With
lbl_Exit:
  Exit Sub
End Sub

eduzs · #3 06-24-2020, 01:42 PM

Works fine! Thanks!

eduzs · #4 06-24-2020, 02:13 PM

Is there a single sub that will do this for a list of words? Based on your code.

This code I was editing is not working:

Code:

Set oDoc = ActiveDocument
aFind = Array(". ,", "house")
Set oRng = oDoc.range
For x = 0 To UBound(aFind)
    With oRng.Find
        .Text = aFind(x)
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        Do While .Execute(Forward:=True) = True: oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow: Loop
    End With
Next x

gmaxey · #5 06-24-2020, 02:30 PM

If you are going to pass drive-by questions at least show some effort to post structured code and declare your variables.

Code:

Option Explicit
Sub ScratchMacro()
'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
Dim lngIndex As Long
Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oRng As Range
Dim arrFind
  Set oDoc = ActiveDocument
  arrFind = Array(". ,", "house")
  For lngIndex = 0 To UBound(arrFind)
    Set oRng = oDoc.Range
    With oRng.Find
      .Text = arrFind(lngIndex)
      .Format = True
      .MatchCase = False
      .MatchWholeWord = False
      .MatchWildcards = False
      .MatchSoundsLike = False
      .MatchAllWordForms = False
      Do While .Execute(Forward:=True) = True: oRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow: Loop
   End With
Next lngIndex
lbl_Exit:
  Exit Sub
End Sub

eduzs · #6 06-24-2020, 03:09 PM

Sorry! The code is inside another sub, so I forgot to copy the variable declaration part.
Works fine!
Thank you!

eduzs · #7 06-25-2020, 04:04 AM

Hi gmaxey,

How to highlight the first character of a paragraph that starts with lowercase letters?

The search mask should look something like "^ p [a-z]"

Thanks.

eduzs · #8 06-27-2020, 12:58 PM

Hi, this thread is solved. Last question is not need anymore.

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