Calling for an action when typing a character

macropod · #1 06-15-2011, 05:35 PM

Hi ACA,

It's still not clear what you're trying to achieve (ie what is the macro supposed to do). Depending on what your goal is, it might be achievable via Word's Autotext facility. You don't need any vba for this. Word's Autotext facility allows you to type a string and Word will automatically replace that with another string (which could be a whole page of text, for example) and/or graphics. See Word's help file for details.

ACA · #2 06-16-2011, 04:19 AM

Thank you Paul.
No, it’s not something Word’s AutoText can do. It’s this:
I do translations. For that I keep two Word documents open, Doc.1 (on which I type my translation) and Doc.2 (with the original). My macro does this:
- It goes to the original text, picks a chunk, say15 words, and pastes that on my doc.1.
- When I’ve translated that chunk (by overtyping the original) I execute the macro again and it goes, picks the next 15 words and adds them to my doc.1, and so on.
- Besides, on the original Doc.2, it turns a different color the part of the text already done, so if I need to check something it is easy for my eyes to fall near the spot I’ve reached. Here’s the code:

Code:

 
    Windows("Doc.2").Activate
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdWord, Count:=15, Extend:=wdExtend
    Selection.Copy
    Selection.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
    Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
 
    Windows("Doc.1").Activate
    Selection.PasteAndFormat (wdPasteDefault)
    Selection.MoveLeft Unit:=wdWord, Count:=15
    Overtype = Overtype

What I would like is for that macro (or any other I may think of in the future) to be called automatically by juust entering a given single character in my doc.1.
Thank you again for your interest.
ACA

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