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VBA Word - How do I loop through a doc changing each paragraph?

I would like to take a simple Word document and loop through from the start to the end and for each paragraph that I find I want to set the font color for the paragraph to Blue AND insert a blank line above the paragraph.

I am actually going to do some more complex formatting but the key thing I do not know is how to loop through a document repeating a set of actions for each paragraph.

Thanks in advance - Dan
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You Can read Paragraph of word doucument using VB. after read parapgraph u can change color, font... For More detail u cause use paragraph object in MSDN help.

Following are procedure to read the range & paragraph.

Public Sub GetRangeExample()
   ' This example shows how the Range method and the Range
   ' property both return the same characters.
   
   Dim rngRangeMethod        As Word.Range
   Dim rngRangeProperty      As Word.Range
   
   With ActiveDocument
      If .Sentences.Count >= 2 Then
            Set rngRangeMethod = .Range(.Sentences(2).Start, _
                .Sentences(2).End)
            Set rngRangeProperty = .Sentences(2)
      End If
   End With
   
   Debug.Print rngRangeMethod.Text
   Debug.Print rngRangeProperty.Text
End Sub





Function IsLastCharParagraph(ByRef rngTextRange As Word.Range, _
                            Optional blnTrimParaMark As Boolean = _
                            False) As Boolean
   ' This procedure accepts a character, word, sentence, or
   ' paragraph Range object as the first argument and returns True
   ' if the last character in the range is a paragraph mark, and
   ' False if it is not. The procedure also accepts an optional
   ' Boolean argument that specifies whether the Range object
   ' should be changed to eliminate the paragraph mark if it
   ' exists. When the blnTrimParaMark argument is True, this
   ' procedure calls itself recursively to strip off all trailing
   ' paragraph marks.
   Dim strLastChar As String
   
   strLastChar = Right$(rngTextRange.Text, 1)
   If InStr(strLastChar, Chr$(13)) = 0 Then
      IsLastCharParagraph = False
      Exit Function
   Else
      IsLastCharParagraph = True
      If Not blnTrimParaMark = True Then
            Exit Function
      Else
         Do
            rngTextRange.SetRange rngTextRange.Start, _
               rngTextRange.Start + rngTextRange.Characters.Count - 1
            Call IsLastCharParagraph(rngTextRange, True)
         Loop While InStr(rngTextRange.Text, Chr$(13)) <> 0
      End If
   End If
End Function



Sanjeev
in VB take reference of Microsoft word object library then you can create word object and open any existing document and format it

for example after opening the document to change properties of first para use following code.
in the same way you can loop through all paragraphs in the document, ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count gives you the number of paragraphs in the document.

Dim rngPara As Range

Set rngPara = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Range
With rngPara
   .Bold = True
   .ParagraphFormat.Alignment = wdAlignParagraphCenter
   .Font.Name = "Arial"
End With


seaber,

Something like this?

Sub LoopThroughParagraphs()
  Dim p As Paragraph
  For Each p In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs
    p.Range.InsertBefore vbCr
    p.Range.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
  Next p
End Sub

Ture Magnusson
Karlstad, Sweden
I've been doing lots of VBA for word programming and Ture's solution is the best.  I would disregard sanjeevjain1973's solution because its re-inventing the wheel at best and buggy at worst.

Word already has made a paragraph an object.  Its easiest to use it as Ture has.

If you need to run it from VB then reference the Word library like appari talks about.
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Nice clean code - thanks very much Ture - Dan
Dan,

You are welcome!

I assume that you forgot to accept my comment as an answer, so I upgrade to answer now.

Sorklin - thanks for your comment. I'm glad that you like my approach also.

/Ture
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Dan,

if you are happy with my answer, please do not forget to accept and grade it.

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