Basically I have created an acronym finding macro and it works well except it includes all of our reference numbers. Now unfortunately changing the search parameters won't work as many acronyms include both letters and numbers.
My idea was to compare the string, once found, and if it is in the reference number format e.g.
LetterNumberNumberLetterLetterNumberNumberNumberNumber
I will simply not include it.
I'm certain there must be a simple way of doing this and me not being able to locate it is a case of not knowing what to search for but anyway thank you in advance for the help.
Use LIKE:
'//LetterNumberNumberLetterLetterNumberNumberNumberNumber
if ucase$("A12BC3456") like "[A-Z][0-9][0-9][A-Z][A-Z][0-9][0-9][0-9][0-9]" then
msgbox "is ref no."
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Here is an example of what I want. Suppose a text:
paper[1], some texts[2], paper[3]
Here is the expected result ==>
paper[1], some texts[2], paper[3]
That is, I want to replace all "paper[1]" with "paper[1]" and similarly, replace "paper[3]" with "paper[3]" but keep the texts[2] unchanged.
I have noticed that word can not search the mixing format text, e.g., I can not find the text "paper[3]". So I may need the VBA to achieve this. Any ideas? Thanks!
You don't even need VBA for that! A wildcard Find/Replace can be used, where:
Find = paper\[[13]\]
Replace = ^&
and the replacement font is set to 'not superscript'. If you really want a macro, record the above.
I am currently working on a tool to automatically send out emails.
Within this tool one variable is the pathway in which the attachment is to be found.
The file names are automatically generated within a folder, but sometimes got strange symbols and/or uppercase letters, like this: "Sⁿkwrld.xlsx".
By collecting this value within a string, VBA retrieves: "Snkwrld.xlsx". This results in not being able to find the right file.
Is there a way to fix this problem and let VBA retrieve the correct value with the uppercase "N"?
Thanks in advance!
Best Regards,
Remco Coppens
word document may contain repeated adjacent words. can there be a vba macro code to retain single occurrence, and delete the repeat.
eg,
He is is doing well.
should change to
He is doing well.
Help would be much appreciated.
I can't try it because office.live.com doesn't seem to support wildcards, but you can try this:
In Find and Replace > Replace > check Use wildcards and in the Find what: enter "(<*>) <\1>" and click Find Next to see if that matches the two words. If it does, enter "\1" in Replace with: and click Replace All to see if everything works as expected. If it does, you can Record Macro of those steps and check the generated code.
The above expression should also find repeating numbers like a123 a123. If you don't want that, you can try this expression in the Find what:
(<[A-Za-z]{1,}>) \1[!A-Za-z]
from http://www.louiseharnbyproofreader.com/blog-the-proofreaders-parlour/proofreading-in-word-one-of-my-favourite-findreplace-strings
i have a word document containing several strings. These strings have the first part always the same, for example ABC_001, ABC_002, ABC_003. I need to search for "ABC_" substring in the doc, extract all the occurences ("ABC_001", "ABC_002", "ABC_003") and copy them in an Excel sheet.
Anyone can help?
Thanks in advance.
You can reference the VBScript Regular Expressions 5.5 and regex them.
Have a look at http://www.macrostash.com/2011/10/08/simple-regular-expression-tutorial-for-excel-vba/
and http://txt2re.com/
and some of VBA multiple matches within one string using regular expressions execute method
EDIT:
Actually it is probably easier to go to data and "Get external data" choose de-limiter and import, either manually or record a macro to get a feeling for the vba structure.
This should get you all the entrys in seperate cells, then go over them with a MID to get the part you need
Okay, I am a Javascript programmer and VBA is driving me insane - I know nothing about it and it is like pulling teeth to find simple documentation on the simplest thing.
I'm literally trying to run a little script to auto-format a document, partly based in content.
I want to grab the third line of document, or first 100 characters, I really don't care, and run the equivalent of String().indexOf('foobar') on it, to check if that part of the document contains a string.
I cannot for the life of me find how to:
a. Load text selection into a variable.
b. Run a sane semblance to indexOf.
Can someone please help? And maybe point me to a sane VBA documentation that is not Micrsoft?
a. Load text selection into a variable.
Identify a range (Word.Range) you want and get the Text property of that range.
For instance,
dim s as string
s = ThisDocument.Paragraphs(3).Range.Text
b. Run a sane semblance to indexOf.
Is InStr no good?
msgbox InStr(s, "foobar")