setting paragraph style removes inlines incidentally. Why?

gmaxey · #1 01-20-2021, 09:07 AM

Paul, here both of those returned the same result the OP is seeing.

Ruud, back to your original observation, it does seem that the length of the italic string in the paragraph text is having and affect. I copied your line 2 as lines 4 and 5. Then shortened the italic string in line 4. Ran your macro and lines 2 and 5 were not converted to all normal font.

I don't know why that is happening. I don't know how helpful this will be for your production documents, but for this example, this worked:

Code:

Public Sub flatten()
Dim oRng As Range
Dim wPara As Word.Paragraph
  Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
  With oRng.Find
    .Font.Italic = True
    .Replacement.Text = "<i>^&</i>"
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With
  For Each wPara In Word.ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
    wPara.Style = ActiveDocument.styles(wdStyleNormal).NameLocal
  Next
  Set oRng = ActiveDocument.Range
  With oRng.Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Text = "(\<i\>)(*)(\</i\>)"
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Replacement.Text = "\2"
    .Replacement.Font.Italic = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With
lbl_Exit:
  Exit Sub
End Sub

macropod · #2 01-20-2021, 01:07 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gmaxey

Paul, here both of those returned the same result the OP is seeing.

In my testing, both restored the Normal formatting for the entire document.

If I misread the OP's requirement and the italics are to be retained, that's as simple as:

Code:

Public Sub Flatten()
ActiveDocument.Range.Style = wdStyleNormal
End Sub

or:

Code:

Public Sub Flatten()
ActiveDocument.Range.ParagraphFormat.Reset
End Sub

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