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MS Word Macro to Highlight Text
Hi,
I need to write a macro or other code to achieve the following goal when a document is opened.
1) Display the word document
2) Highlight any words in the document which are in the clipboard.
The request sound simple enough but thus far I am stumped as how to approach this.
Here is a samle of the clipboard contents:
Index of INC_DOCS - telephone and perry
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\86804.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\36905.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\97053.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\86083.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\53412.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\62894.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\93763.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\46199.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\80905.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\90660.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\97363.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\85723.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\96224.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\85723.r
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\86177.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\76956.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\83505.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\91948.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\94205.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\96517.d
I need to write a macro or other code to achieve the following goal when a document is opened.
1) Display the word document
2) Highlight any words in the document which are in the clipboard.
The request sound simple enough but thus far I am stumped as how to approach this.
Here is a samle of the clipboard contents:
Index of INC_DOCS - telephone and perry
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\86804.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\36905.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\97053.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\86083.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\53412.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\62894.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\93763.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\46199.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\80905.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\90660.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\97363.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\85723.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\96224.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\85723.r
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\86177.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\76956.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\83505.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\91948.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\94205.d
P:\PUBLIC\INC_DOCS\96517.d
ASKER
That sound logical but raises another question. In my example "Index of INC_DOCS - telephone and perry "
If I run a find and replace the whole string will not be in the document. Rather, the words telephone, perry will be in the document.
How can I tell the find / replace to search for any of the words not the whole string?
If I run a find and replace the whole string will not be in the document. Rather, the words telephone, perry will be in the document.
How can I tell the find / replace to search for any of the words not the whole string?
I'm not quite sure that I understand the problem, but you if you want to find one or another of two words, you can do two successive searches.
ASKER
True, I could run two searches however, in my example I had two words in a boolean search setup. It could also be additional words. I think that I need to find a way to export these terms into some sort of array to search on.
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Then I would take each line and do a Find and Replace in the original document, the Replace to apply a highlighting colour to anything found.