How to convert a letter to superscript in macro (Word)? - vba

Question

I want change a word to superscript in macro.
word 2016.
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "7th of every month."
.Replacement.Text = "7^th of every month."
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
when i run the macro instead of making "th" as supercript it just create space between "7" and "h"
Result is like this "The meeting is on 7 h of every month."enter image description here

Answer 1

The following code searches for one or two digits, immediately followed by th and superscripts the th. This makes it more flexible than searching the specific string.
It works with a Range rather than a Selection object which will make it faster. The search type is a "wildcard" search.
Sub SuperScript_th_()
Dim rngFind As Word.Range
Dim searchText As String
Dim found As Boolean
Set rngFind = ActiveDocument.content
searchText = "[0-9]{1;2}th"
'searchText = "7th"
With rngFind.Find
.Text = searchText
.MatchWildcards = True
.wrap = wdFindStop
found = .Execute
Do While found
rngFind.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
rngFind.MoveStart wdCharacter, -2
rngFind.Font.Superscript = True
rngFind.End = ActiveDocument.content.End
found = .Execute
Loop
End With
End Sub
The ^t is the instruction in Word's Find to insert a TAB (like pressing the Tab-key on the keyboard). That's why the code in the quesiton is inserting space between the 7 the h in the Replacement.Text.
While Word's Find/Replace is able to format text as part of the Replacement, the difficulty here is that
Not all the text being found should be formatted
The entire text needs to be retained
It's not possible to tell Find/Replace to find text, then format only part of it. That's why the Find needs to be separate from the formatting action. If the entire found text needed to be formatted, then Find/Replace alone would work.
There are also no commands in Word's Find/Replace to apply formatting as a "code" in the Replacement.Text string.

Answer 2

Why don't simply try like this
With Selection.Find
.Text = "7th of every month."
'.Replacement.Text = "7^th of every month."
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
Do While .Execute
ActiveDocument.Range(Selection.Range.Start + 1, Selection.Range.Start + 3).Font.Superscript = True
Loop
End With
Edit: With turning off some word options etc the 8 sec time to process 60 pages and 1240 replacement may be reduced to around 2 seconds. the test code
Sub test2()
Dim Rng As Range, tm As Double
tm = Timer
TurnOnOff False
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "7th of every month."
X = 0
Do While .Execute
ActiveDocument.Range(Selection.Range.Start + 1, Selection.Range.Start + 3).Font.Superscript = True
X = X + 1
Loop
End With
Debug.Print X, Timer - tm
TurnOnOff True
End Sub
Sub TurnOnOff(OnOff As Boolean)
Application.ScreenUpdating = OnOff
With Options
.Pagination = OnOff
.CheckSpellingAsYouType = OnOff
.CheckGrammarAsYouType = OnOff
End With
End Sub