Remove hyphenation from copied text from pdf in Word VBA

vivka · #2 03-20-2024, 12:50 PM

Hi, Jakov93! There are several types of a dash: minus/hyphen (chr(45)), en-dash (chr(150)), and em-dash (chr(151). Try using each of them or alll of them at once with .MatchWildcards = True:

Code:

.text = "[" & Chr(45) & Chr(150) & Chr(151) & "]" & Chr(32)

Or if you surely want to keep the character and remove dash + space, use:

Code:

    With oRng.Find
        .ClearFormatting
        .Replacement.ClearFormatting
        .text = "(?)- "
        .Replacement.text = "\1"
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindStop
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchWildcards = True
        .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    End With

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