Selection doesn't contain the action

Ulodesk · #1 10-19-2011, 12:16 PM

Well, I've tried to learn VBA on my own, but have not gotten very far in two years with little, occasional time to spend on it. My macros are either my own recorded ones or copied from free sources on the web.
At present, my problem is getting two simple macros from Word 2003 and 2007 to work in 2010. I have two which work perfectly in the former two, one to replace double returns with single, and another to replace hard returns with spaces, both of these operating only on selected text. I have no problem recording such macros in 2010 to operate on an entire document.
(In 2007 I have a variants for dealing with text in which each line has a hard return: one for text with tabs beginning paragraphs, and one to insert tabs before removing all the returns and then replacing ^t with ^p^t afterwards.)
The problem is, in 2010 I can't make the selection contain the action. "Search up" and "search down" both continue to the front or end of the document, respectively; "search all" does what it says; "replace all" appears to be the necessary action in any case.
I have tried fiddling with the code, borrowing promising looking lines from other macros, but I simply don't know enough to make it work.

Other macros, such as text formatting, work on a selection without issue.
When recording the macros, I select several or more paragraphs before starting the recording.
These simple macros safe considerable time and frustration in my daily need to reformat text from an ancient word processing computer (not mine), resumes with text copied from who-knows-where or typed by folks who don't know word processing, etc.
I'd be grateful for a source link or actual macros for these two tasks.

Ulodesk

macropod · #2 10-21-2011, 02:20 AM

Hi Ulodesk,

Without seeing your code it's hard to be sure what the problem is. However, I suspect it has to do with your '.Wrap = ' line (if you have one), which should be set to 'wdFindStop'. Try:

Code:

Sub Demo()
With Selection.Find
  .ClearFormatting
  .Replacement.ClearFormatting
  .Forward = True
  .Wrap = wdFindStop
  .Format = False
  .MatchAllWordForms = False
  .MatchSoundsLike = False
  .MatchWildcards = True
  'Find multiple consecutive paragraph breaks
  .Text = "[^13]{2,}"
  'Replace with a single paragraph break
  .Replacement.Text = "^p"
  .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End Sub

Ulodesk · #3 10-21-2011, 05:59 AM

Dear Paul,
Right on target, as usual. My thanks once again, and best wishes,

Philip

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