Search for first occurrence of certain letter in beginning of a paragraph

laith93 · #1 11-02-2021, 01:41 PM

Hi,
Look at this image

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I have a list of references (bibliography) at the end of the document, which sorted alphabetically
I want to organize them in a professional way and put them in subgroups by inserting the corresponding letter before each group of references of a certain letter.
The above image is created manually

For example:
I want to search for the first occurrence of letter A in beginning of the first paragraph which starts with A letter, then insert letter A before this paragraph and apply the style "BibloChar" to it, which is present in the attachment file.
When A is finished jump to the B letter and do the same thing, and so and so, until finishing all characters.

I want the template of the code for letters A, B, and C, then I will complete the rest of the code.

Thanks a lot.

Guessed · #2 11-02-2021, 04:44 PM

This looks like it works.

Code:

Sub AddLetterHeads()
  Dim iPar As Integer, sLett As String, aRng As Range, sPrev As String
  Set aRng = ActiveDocument.Range
  For iPar = aRng.Paragraphs.Count To 1 Step -1
    sLett = aRng.Paragraphs(iPar).Range.Characters(1)
    If iPar > 1 Then sPrev = aRng.Paragraphs(iPar).Previous.Range.Characters(1)
    If sPrev <> sLett Or iPar = 1 Then
      aRng.Paragraphs(iPar).Range.InsertBefore sLett & vbCr
      aRng.Paragraphs(iPar).Style = "BibloChar"   'the new paragraph
    End If
  Next iPar
End Sub

laith93 · #3 11-02-2021, 06:17 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Guessed

This looks like it works.

Wow, Mr. Andrew
It works by 100%
Thank you, That’s very kind of you
I can’t thank you enough
Thank you for your guidance and support
I will forever be beholden to you
Thank you, I really appreciate your help

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