VBA works, but screen doesn't go to cursor - vba

I have a Word macro that finds the selected text throughout the document, highlights all occurrences, and returns to the starting point (via a bookmark it sets first). The only problem is, after running it, Word displays the page above the bookmark (where the cursor is). The cursor isn't on screen at all.
After running it, I can tap a key and the screen moves to display the entry point. I added a line to do the same thing within the macro (move right one character), and it still drops me a page above. I tried using SmallScroll on the window, but that moves the insertion point. I need to end up where I started.
What can I do?
Sorry about not posting the code before, I couldn't get it to format as code. (I blame IE8 on a federal network.)
Sub AcronymHilighter()
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
' Check that user has selected some text
''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Dim strGetAcronym As String
If Not Selection.Type = wdSelectionNormal Then
MsgBox "Please select some text.", vbInformation
Exit Sub
End If
'''''''''''''''''''
' Set a bookmark at the current location
'''''''''''''''''''
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add _
Name:="MarkReturn", Range:=Selection.Range
'''''''''''''''''''
' Save the current track changes state, then turn it off
'''''''''''''''''''
Dim bTrackingAsWas As Boolean
bTrackingAsWas = ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions
ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False
ActiveDocument.ShowRevisions = False
''''''''''''''''''
' Find & highlight the text
''''''''''''''''''
strGetAcronym = Selection.Text
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
With Selection.Find
.Text = strGetAcronym
.Highlight = False
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchCase = True
Do While .Execute
Selection.Range.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Loop
End With
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
' Return to the starting point,
' restore Track Changes to the previous state
'''''''''''''''''''''''''''''
Selection.GoTo what:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="MarkReturn"
ActiveWindow.SmallScroll Down:=2
ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = bTrackingAsWas
ActiveDocument.ShowRevisions = True
End Sub
Pardon my excessive commenting, I like to remind myself what everything does; the last time I wrote code, it was in BASIC in 1985.

I'm not fully aware of your problem (since you didn't post your code), but this bit does the work you described:
Sub MarkAndGoBack()
With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Name:="Bookmark"
.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
.ShowHidden = False
End With
Dim doc As Document
Dim para As Paragraph
Set doc = ActiveDocument
For Each aWord In doc.Words
If aWord.Text = "WantedWord" Then aWord.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Next aWord
Selection.GoTo What:=wdGoToBookmark, Name:="Bookmark"
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("Bookmark").Delete
With ActiveDocument.Bookmarks
.DefaultSorting = wdSortByName
.ShowHidden = False
End With
End Sub
It searches for the Word "WantedWord" and highlights it yellow. After that, you will be forwarded to your initially created bookmark. It shows the correct page with cursor for me. If you want to do an Input search, you have to replace "WantedWord" with an InputBox.

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MS Word, VBA, How to select a paragraph within a cell within a table?

I'm new to using VBA to write macros within MS Word. I've worked out how to select the cell within the table, but it doesn't appear I can use the paragraph object with it... or, more likely, I'm doing it wrong.
Essentially, what I'm trying to do, it look for phrase "as follows:" within all the paragraphs of Cell (13,2) of Table(1). If it finds it, I want to see if the next thing that happens after that phrase is a new paragraph with a bullet. If it is, great, nothing more to do. If it isn't, then do a new paragraph with a bullet.
I'm just not sure how to go about this, particularly determining if there is already a bullet or not.
Hoping someone can throw some light on the subject. I'll keep plugging away in the meantime. :)
UPDATE: I've gotten this far where it inserts a return and I was hoping would insert a bullet but it is inserting a bullet in numerous spaces in that Cell rather than after the vbCr:
Dim BIOCell As range
With ActiveDocument
Set BIOCell = .range(Start:=.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2).range.Start, _
End:=.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2).range.End)
BIOCell.Select
End With
With ActiveDocument.Tables(1)
If .Cell(13, 2).range.Text Like "*as follows:*" Then
With Selection.Find
.Text = "as follows: "
.Replacement.Text = "as follows:" & vbCr
Selection.range.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel ListTemplate:= _
ListGalleries(wdBulletGallery).ListTemplates(1), ContinuePreviousList:= _
False, ApplyTo:=wdListApplyToWholeList, DefaultListBehavior:= _
wdWord10ListBehavior
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
Else
MsgBox "couldn't find it"
End If
End With
I've modified your code sample and this works for me. Since you already declare and assign a Range to BIOCell you can use that throughout your macro to identify the cell contents. There's no need to use the "Like" test since Range.Find.Execute returns True if successful, otherwise False. When Find is successful, the Range will change to what has been found (in other words it's no longer the entire cell).
Trying to replace with a paragraph mark isn't working as you wish. Since you need to do something that can't be done with Find/Replace anyway (the bullets) simply add the paragraph mark if Find is successful, put the Range focus at the end of the cell, than apply the Bullets formatting. (Note that there's no need to use Selection if you have the Range object.)
Sub FindInCellAppendBullets()
Dim BIOCell As Range
Dim found As Boolean
With ActiveDocument
Set BIOCell = .Range(Start:=.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2).Range.Start, _
End:=.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2).Range.End)
BIOCell.Select
End With
With BIOCell.Find
.Text = "as follows: "
found = .Execute
If found Then
BIOCell.InsertParagraphAfter
BIOCell.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
BIOCell.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel ListTemplate:= _
ListGalleries(wdBulletGallery).ListTemplates(1), ContinuePreviousList:= _
False, ApplyTo:=wdListApplyToWholeList, DefaultListBehavior:= _
wdWord10ListBehavior
Else
MsgBox "couldn't find it"
End If
End With
End Sub
If the table cell already has paragraphs of text and you want everything after the Find term to be bulleted, then the code could look like the example that follows.
In this case, a second Range object is used to perform the Find, while BIOCell remains assigned to the entire cell. (Always use the Duplicate property to make a "copy" of a Range that can be used independently. Range is an anamoly in the Office object models: Range=Range makes both Ranges identical - if you change the position of one, the position of the other changes, as well.)
Once Find is successful, the findRange is collapsed to the end of the Find term and moved one paragraph further (to the first paragraph following the found text). The end of the Range is then extended to the end of the cell (end of BIOCell), then moved back a couple of characters so that it doesn't include the end-of-cell markers. (Otherwise the bullets would be applied to the entire cell instead of up through the last paragraph of the cell.)
Sub FindInCellFormatWithBullets()
Dim BIOCell As Range
Dim findRange As Range
Dim found As Boolean
With ActiveDocument
Set BIOCell = .Range(Start:=.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2).Range.Start, _
End:=.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2).Range.End)
Set findRange = BIOCell.Duplicate
BIOCell.Select
End With
With findRange.Find
.Text = "as follows: "
found = .Execute
If found Then
findRange.MoveStart wdParagraph, 1
findRange.End = BIOCell.End - 2
findRange.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel ListTemplate:= _
ListGalleries(wdBulletGallery).ListTemplates(1), ContinuePreviousList:= _
False, ApplyTo:=wdListApplyToWholeList, DefaultListBehavior:= _
wdWord10ListBehavior
Else
MsgBox "couldn't find it"
End If
End With
End Sub
Try:
Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
Dim Rng As Range, i As Long
With ActiveDocument.Tables(1).Cell(13, 2)
Set Rng = .Range
With .Range
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Text = "as follows:"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Execute
End With
If .Find.Found = False Then
MsgBox "couldn't find it"
Exit Sub
End If
Do While .Find.Found
If .InRange(Rng) Then
If .Characters.Last.Next <> vbCr Then .InsertAfter vbCr & vbCr
If .Paragraphs.Last.Next.Range.ListFormat.ListType <> wdListBullet Then
If Len(.Paragraphs.Last.Next.Range.Text) > 1 Then .InsertAfter vbCr
.Paragraphs.Last.Next.Range.ListFormat.ApplyListTemplateWithLevel _
ListTemplate:=ListGalleries(wdBulletGallery).ListTemplates(1), _
ContinuePreviousList:=False, ApplyTo:=wdListApplyToWholeList, _
DefaultListBehavior:=wdWord10ListBehavior
End If
Else
Exit Do
End If
.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
.Find.Execute
Loop
End With
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
Unlike Cindy's code, the above will insert a bullet paragraph regardless of whether the 'as follows:' string terminates with a paragraph break (or anything other than a space) when the following paragraph isn't a bulleted one.

wdtitleword - use vba to apply to more than one word

In Word it's easy to use vba to apply a highlight to more than one string, word, sentence etc after the user of the document has Ctrl-selected a bunch of them.
However, when I Ctrl-select a few words and run the following statement, only the last of my selected words is changed.
Is there a way to apply wdtitleword to more than one selected word?
Thanks.
sub a()
Selection.Range.Case = wdTitleWord
end sub
Please try this:
Sub changeNonContigCase()
' Find the non-contig selection
If Selection.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic Then
Selection.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = whtcolor
End If
' Find and process each range with .Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = WhtColor
ActiveDocument.Range.Select
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart
With Selection.Find
.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = whtcolor
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
Do While .Execute
' Do what you need
Selection.Range.Case = wdTitleWord
' Reset shading as you go
Selection.Font.Shading.BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
' Setup to find the next selection
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
Loop
End With
End Sub
This works, but is indirect. I don't think there is a more direct way to achieve this. You can modify to avoid resetting existing formatting that you need to preserve. Until now I didn't even know that it was possible to select a non-contiguous range in MS Word, pity it is not easier to work with in VBA.

word vba range not repositioning using a loop

I am working on a macro in word. It pulls cell contents from some cells in an excel doc, puts part of them at the end of the word doc, bolds the first part, then puts the rest of the string and unbolds it.Then it looks for the next match in the excel doc and repeats until there are no matches.
On the second pass through the loop, it continues to affect the content added in the first pass. The font with block also affects the previous line and ends up bolding the entire thing. I set the object to Nothing at the end of the function so I wouldn't expect it to see the first part of the loop as part of the range any longer.
Do
x = AssembleSentence(Last, First, Rank)
Set Loc = .FindNext(Loc)
Loop While Not Loc Is Nothing And Loc.Address <> sFirstFind
Function AssembleSentence(Last, First, Rank)
Dim sText0 As String, sText As String, oText As Object
Set oText = ActiveDocument.Content
sText0 = First & " " & Last
sText = ", " & Rank & " Professor at College of Hard Knocks."
Set oText = ActiveDocument.Content.Paragraphs.Add
oText.Range.SetRange Start:=ActiveDocument.Range.End, End:=ActiveDocument.Range.End
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
With oText.Range
.InsertAfter (sText0)
With .Font
.Bold = True
End With
End With
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
With Selection
.Text = sText
With .Font
.Bold = False
End With
End With
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
Set oText = Nothing
End Function
Still unsure why the loop doesn't redo the range to the end on its own, but this fixes it so that it stops affecting prior looped content.
Looking at my oText.range start/end properties it looks like it is 1034/1035 with a length of 1036 on the first pass and then 1036/1209 with a length of 1210 on the second pass. That is the issue - I don't know why it isn't 1208/1209 on the second pass after setting the object to nothing at the end of the first pass, but the following edit fixes the issue.
With oText.Range
.SetRange Start:=oText.Range.End, End:=oText.Range.End
.InsertAfter (sText0)
With .Font
.Bold = True
End With
End With

VBA need Range assistance

the following is the function I have for adding the non underlined entry
(to simplify it a bit, there is also a function that does this twice adding 1 string underlined and then the string after it not underlined)
Function Add_Single_Entry(ByVal uEntry As String, ByVal ptime As String, ByVal crntValue As String)
uEntry = UCase( uEntry )
Call add_tList( ptime )
Dim rng1 As Word.Range
' Set Selection position however is appropriate
Set rng1 = Selection.Range
rng1.End = rng1.Start
rng1.Text = uEntry
Selection.Start = rng1.End
End Function
I need to be able to set my starting point to be the next line after the last instance of crntValue but I'm not sure how.
to clarify i would like the code to find the last instance of say "0000Z" (crntValue) in a Word document and then input a string on the next line.
In cases like this, the macro recorder is a good help - just record "goto end, find upwards, insert new line" and adapt the recorded code.
Something like
' goto end of document
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdStory
With Selection.Find
.Text = crntValue
.Forward = False ' from bottom to top
.Format = False
' adapt to your needs
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
End With
' Check if the string was found
If Selection.Find.Execute() Then
' goto end of line
Selection.EndKey Unit:=wdLine
' and insert new line
Selection.TypeParagraph
' now you're ready to insert your entry
Else
MsgBox "Sorry, " & crntValue & " was not found.", vbExclamation
End If

Use VBA with Powerpoint to Search titles in a Word Doc and Copy Text into another Word Document

I'm working on a Powerpoint slide, where I few texts are listed. I have to search for these texts in a Word Document which has a lot of Headings and Texts. After I find the title text, I need to copy the text under the Heading and paste in a new document.
Basically, the VBA coding has to be done in the Powerpoint VBA, with two documents in the background for searching text and pasting it in another.
I've opened the word doc. But searching the text in it and selecting it for copying to another document is what I've not been able to do. Kindly help me.
I see. The following is not exactly elegant since it uses Selection which I always try to avoid but it is the only way I know to achieve such a thing.
Disclaimer 1: this is made in Word VBA, so you will need a slight adaption, like set a reference to Word, use a wrdApp = New Word.Application object and declare doc and newdoc explicitely as Word.Document.
Disclaimer 2: Since you search for text instead of the respective heading, beware that this will find the first occurence of that text so you better not have the same text in several chapters. ;-)
Disclaimer 3: I cannot paste anymore! :-( My clipboard is set, it pastes elsewhere but I just cannot paste in here.
Code follows with first edit, hopefully in a minute...
Edit: yepp, pasting works again. :-)
Sub FindChapter()
Dim doc As Document, newdoc As Document
Dim startrange As Long, endrange As Long
Dim HeadingToFind As String, ChapterToFind As String
ChapterToFind = "zgasfdiukzfdggsdaf" 'just for testing
Set doc = ActiveDocument
Set newdoc = Documents.Add
doc.Activate
Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdStory
With Selection
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = ChapterToFind
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchCase = True
.Execute
End With
If .Find.Found Then
'**********
'Find preceding heading to know where chapter starts
'**********
.Collapse wdCollapseStart
With .Find
.Text = ""
.Style = "Heading 1"
.Forward = False
.Execute
If Not .Found Then
MsgBox "Could not find chapter heading"
Exit Sub
End If
End With
.MoveDown Count:=1
.HomeKey unit:=wdLine
startrange = .Start
'*********
'Find next heading to know where chapter ends
'*********
.Find.Forward = True
.Find.Execute
.Collapse wdCollapseStart
.MoveUp Count:=1
.EndKey unit:=wdLine
endrange = .End
doc.Range(startrange, endrange).Copy
newdoc.Content.Paste
newdoc.SaveAs2 doc.Path & "\" & HeadingToFind & ".docx", wdFormatFlatXML
Else
MsgBox "Chapter not found"
End If
End With
End Sub
Edit: If you need to search for a "feature" that will be in some table in column 1 with the description in column 2 and you need that description in a new doc, try this:
Sub FindFeature()
Dim doc As Document, newdoc As Document
Dim FeatureToFind As String
Dim ro As Long, tbl As Table
FeatureToFind = "zgasfdiukzfdggsdaf" 'just for testing
Set doc = ActiveDocument
Set newdoc = Documents.Add
doc.Activate
Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdStory
With Selection
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = FeatureToFind
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchCase = True
.Execute
End With
If .Find.Found Then
Set tbl = Selection.Tables(1)
ro = Selection.Cells(1).RowIndex
tbl.Cell(ro, 2).Range.Copy
newdoc.Range.Paste
End If
End With
End Sub
Edit: Slight adaptation so you can paste without overwriting existing content in newdoc:
Instead of newdoc.Range.Paste just use something along the line of this:
Dim ran As Range
Set ran = newdoc.Range
ran.Start = ran.End
ran.Paste