Creating a Macro

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have tested this
and it seems to work really well, how do i get the script to change for
bottom right/left. It only changes the upper phrases but this is definatly
looking good, i really appreciate your help with this
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to get
the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro and
Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script, should i be
doing it that way or is there another way to do this ?
Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and the
font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will do just
that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some suitable shape I
came up with the following which uses box drawing shapes from the
Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly standard font that you will
have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that the
shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So all that
needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by the shape.
Does this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list of
words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and more
particularly your requirement to have a shape that you can write
in. The logical shape would be a table cell, to which you could
apply borders to produce the four shapes and type in the space,
but you cannot intersperse table cells with text - each cell would
have to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of the
box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous shapes,
but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word documents.
The macro will need to look for certain words which are (upper
right, upper left, bottom right and bottom left). These words
will then need to be replaced by some kind of autoshape/symbol.
Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right hand
side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left hand
side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist can
type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental grid. I know
how to record macros and i am happy finding and replacing words,
but this is proving quite difficult to achieve. Is there any sort
of vb script out there that will accomplish this, what is the
best way to get the end result. I am very new to VB so my
knowledge is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead of bottom,
changed that and it looks great
--
lewisma


"lewisma" wrote:

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have tested this
and it seems to work really well, how do i get the script to change for
bottom right/left. It only changes the upper phrases but this is definatly
looking good, i really appreciate your help with this
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to get
the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro and
Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script, should i be
doing it that way or is there another way to do this ?
Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and the
font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will do just
that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some suitable shape I
came up with the following which uses box drawing shapes from the
Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly standard font that you will
have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that the
shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So all that
needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by the shape.
Does this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list of
words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and more
particularly your requirement to have a shape that you can write
in. The logical shape would be a table cell, to which you could
apply borders to produce the four shapes and type in the space,
but you cannot intersperse table cells with text - each cell would
have to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of the
box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous shapes,
but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word documents.
The macro will need to look for certain words which are (upper
right, upper left, bottom right and bottom left). These words
will then need to be replaced by some kind of autoshape/symbol.
Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right hand
side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left hand
side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist can
type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental grid. I know
how to record macros and i am happy finding and replacing words,
but this is proving quite difficult to achieve. Is there any sort
of vb script out there that will accomplish this, what is the
best way to get the end result. I am very new to VB so my
knowledge is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead of
bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate your
help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to get
the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro and
Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script, should i be
doing it that way or is there another way to do this ?
Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and the
font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will do just
that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some suitable shape I
came up with the following which uses box drawing shapes from the
Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly standard font that you will
have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that
the shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So
all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by
the shape. Does this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list
of words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and
more particularly your requirement to have a shape that you can
write in. The logical shape would be a table cell, to which you
could apply borders to produce the four shapes and type in the
space, but you cannot intersperse table cells with text - each
cell would have to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of
the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous shapes,
but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words which
are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and bottom left).
These words will then need to be replaced by some kind of
autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right
hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left hand
side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist can
type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental grid. I
know how to record macros and i am happy finding and replacing
words, but this is proving quite difficult to achieve. Is
there any sort of vb script out there that will accomplish
this, what is the best way to get the end result. I am very
new to VB so my knowledge is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add another
phrase in which would be something like everything or all (this would be for
upper right/left and lower right/left) i think they would require the +
symbol for this to allow for everything, how do i add that into the current
working script

Many thanks
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead of
bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate your
help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to get
the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro and
Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script, should i be
doing it that way or is there another way to do this ?
Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and the
font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will do just
that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some suitable shape I
came up with the following which uses box drawing shapes from the
Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly standard font that you will
have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that
the shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So
all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by
the shape. Does this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list
of words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and
more particularly your requirement to have a shape that you can
write in. The logical shape would be a table cell, to which you
could apply borders to produce the four shapes and type in the
space, but you cannot intersperse table cells with text - each
cell would have to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of
the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous shapes,
but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words which
are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and bottom left).
These words will then need to be replaced by some kind of
autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right
hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left hand
side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist can
type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental grid. I
know how to record macros and i am happy finding and replacing
words, but this is proving quite difficult to achieve. Is
there any sort of vb script out there that will accomplish
this, what is the best way to get the end result. I am very
new to VB so my knowledge is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower right")
vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the second list,
with each item separated by a comma. You can use plain text or character
strings. If you use the former you would surround the text with straight
quotes as shown in the first line. In the second line I have used the
unicode numbers for the characters in the extended character set of the
Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol command and
browse through those available. Character 265B might be suitable. Having
chosen the character note the HEX number - here 265B, which you need to
convert to its decimal equivalent. The simplest way to do that is to use the
Windows Calculator in its Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type
in 265B, then click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you
would get 9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string instead - or
if you prefer ChrW(43)

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything, how
do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead of
bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate
your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to
get the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro
and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script, should
i be doing it that way or is there another way to do this ?
Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and
the font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will
do just that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some
suitable shape I came up with the following which uses box
drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly
standard font that you will have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that
the shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So
all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by
the shape. Does this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list
of words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and
more particularly your requirement to have a shape that you
can write in. The logical shape would be a table cell, to
which you could apply borders to produce the four shapes and
type in the space, but you cannot intersperse table cells
with text - each cell would have to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of
the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous
shapes, but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only
alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words
which are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and bottom
left). These words will then need to be replaced by some
kind of autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right
hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left
hand side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist
can type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental
grid. I know how to record macros and i am happy finding and
replacing words, but this is proving quite difficult to
achieve. Is there any sort of vb script out there that will
accomplish this, what is the best way to get the end result.
I am very new to VB so my knowledge is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

Graham

Fantastic, your a genius, works like a charm, many many thanks for your help
with this, it would have taken me forever to figure this all out.
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower right")
vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the second list,
with each item separated by a comma. You can use plain text or character
strings. If you use the former you would surround the text with straight
quotes as shown in the first line. In the second line I have used the
unicode numbers for the characters in the extended character set of the
Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol command and
browse through those available. Character 265B might be suitable. Having
chosen the character note the HEX number - here 265B, which you need to
convert to its decimal equivalent. The simplest way to do that is to use the
Windows Calculator in its Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type
in 265B, then click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you
would get 9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string instead - or
if you prefer ChrW(43)

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything, how
do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead of
bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate
your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to
get the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro
and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script, should
i be doing it that way or is there another way to do this ?
Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and
the font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will
do just that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some
suitable shape I came up with the following which uses box
drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly
standard font that you will have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told that
the shape does not need to have anything typed into it now. So
all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be replaced by
the shape. Does this make the end result a little easier now ?
Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a list
of words or phrases, but the problem here is the autoshape and
more particularly your requirement to have a shape that you
can write in. The logical shape would be a table cell, to
which you could apply borders to produce the four shapes and
type in the space, but you cannot intersperse table cells
with text - each cell would have to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges of
the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous
shapes, but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces - only
alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words
which are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and bottom
left). These words will then need to be replaced by some
kind of autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need to become |_
Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the right
hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left
hand side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist
can type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental
grid. I know how to record macros and i am happy finding and
replacing words, but this is proving quite difficult to
achieve. Is there any sort of vb script out there that will
accomplish this, what is the best way to get the end result.
I am very new to VB so my knowledge is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

You are welcome

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Fantastic, your a genius, works like a charm, many many thanks for
your help with this, it would have taken me forever to figure this
all out.

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the second
list, with each item separated by a comma. You can use plain text or
character strings. If you use the former you would surround the text
with straight quotes as shown in the first line. In the second line
I have used the unicode numbers for the characters in the extended
character set of the Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol
command and browse through those available. Character 265B might be
suitable. Having chosen the character note the HEX number - here
265B, which you need to convert to its decimal equivalent. The
simplest way to do that is to use the Windows Calculator in its
Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type in 265B, then
click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you would get
9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string
instead - or if you prefer ChrW(43)

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything,
how do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead
of bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate
your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to
get the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro
and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script,
should i be doing it that way or is there another way to do
this ? Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and
the font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will
do just that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some
suitable shape I came up with the following which uses box
drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly
standard font that you will have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told
that the shape does not need to have anything typed into it
now. So all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be
replaced by the shape. Does this make the end result a
little easier now ? Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a
list of words or phrases, but the problem here is the
autoshape and more particularly your requirement to have a
shape that you can write in. The logical shape would be a
table cell, to which you could apply borders to produce the
four shapes and type in the space, but you cannot
intersperse table cells with text - each cell would have to
be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges
of the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous
shapes, but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces -
only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words
which are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and bottom
left). These words will then need to be replaced by some
kind of autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need to become
|_ Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the
right hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left
hand side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist
can type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental
grid. I know how to record macros and i am happy finding
and replacing words, but this is proving quite difficult to
achieve. Is there any sort of vb script out there that will
accomplish this, what is the best way to get the end
result. I am very new to VB so my knowledge is very
limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

I know i'm being a pain, this is what it looks like so far.

Extract ┘ 5

Extract â”” 5

Extract � 5

Extract ┌ 5

Is it possible to close the spaces so there is not as much of a gap between
the symbol and the number, the top 2 phrases are upper so they that symbol
would need to go down 1 line and slighlty across and the bottom 2 are for the
lower phrase, looks like that needs to go up 1 line and slighlty across.
I want to see of i can align them a bit more accurately.

Thanks
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

You are welcome

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Fantastic, your a genius, works like a charm, many many thanks for
your help with this, it would have taken me forever to figure this
all out.

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the second
list, with each item separated by a comma. You can use plain text or
character strings. If you use the former you would surround the text
with straight quotes as shown in the first line. In the second line
I have used the unicode numbers for the characters in the extended
character set of the Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol
command and browse through those available. Character 265B might be
suitable. Having chosen the character note the HEX number - here
265B, which you need to convert to its decimal equivalent. The
simplest way to do that is to use the Windows Calculator in its
Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type in 265B, then
click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you would get
9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string
instead - or if you prefer ChrW(43)

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything,
how do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead
of bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the upper
phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really appreciate
your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way to
get the script into a macro, before i just went into Word/Macro
and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the script,
should i be doing it that way or is there another way to do
this ? Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in and
the font they are derived from in the macro I posted, it will
do just that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for some
suitable shape I came up with the following which uses box
drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a fairly
standard font that you will have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told
that the shape does not need to have anything typed into it
now. So all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be
replaced by the shape. Does this make the end result a
little easier now ? Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a
list of words or phrases, but the problem here is the
autoshape and more particularly your requirement to have a
shape that you can write in. The logical shape would be a
table cell, to which you could apply borders to produce the
four shapes and type in the space, but you cannot
intersperse table cells with text - each cell would have to
be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges
of the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from the
Wingdings font, which would provide suitably adventurous
shapes, but you wouldn't be able to type in the spaces -
only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words
which are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and bottom
left). These words will then need to be replaced by some
kind of autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need to become
|_ Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the
right hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the left
hand side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the typist
can type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a dental
grid. I know how to record macros and i am happy finding
and replacing words, but this is proving quite difficult to
achieve. Is there any sort of vb script out there that will
accomplish this, what is the best way to get the end
result. I am very new to VB so my knowledge is very
limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in advance

lewisma

lewisma

Are you sure that's it?

Locate the line
..Replacement.Font.Size = 14

and add the following immediately after it

Select Case i
Case 0
.Replacement.Font.Position = -4
Case 1
.Replacement.Font.Position = -4
Case 2
.Replacement.Font.Position = 4
Case 3
.Replacement.Font.Position = 4
Case Else
End Select

This will process each item of the original four in the replacement array in
order. Any others you have added to the end will not be affected.

As for moving the two items closer together add a space in the find strings
after both occurrences of 'left'
i.e.. "upper left " and "bottom left "

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
I know i'm being a pain, this is what it looks like so far.

Extract ? 5

Extract ? 5

Extract ? 5

Extract ? 5

Is it possible to close the spaces so there is not as much of a gap
between the symbol and the number, the top 2 phrases are upper so
they that symbol would need to go down 1 line and slighlty across and
the bottom 2 are for the lower phrase, looks like that needs to go up
1 line and slighlty across.
I want to see of i can align them a bit more accurately.

Thanks

You are welcome

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Fantastic, your a genius, works like a charm, many many thanks for
your help with this, it would have taken me forever to figure this
all out.

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the
second list, with each item separated by a comma. You can use
plain text or character strings. If you use the former you would
surround the text with straight quotes as shown in the first line.
In the second line I have used the unicode numbers for the
characters in the extended character set of the Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol
command and browse through those available. Character 265B might be
suitable. Having chosen the character note the HEX number - here
265B, which you need to convert to its decimal equivalent. The
simplest way to do that is to use the Windows Calculator in its
Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type in 265B, then
click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you would
get 9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string
instead - or if you prefer ChrW(43)

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything,
how do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead
of bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the
upper phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really
appreciate your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way
to get the script into a macro, before i just went into
Word/Macro and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the
script, should i be doing it that way or is there another
way to do this ? Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in
and the font they are derived from in the macro I posted,
it will do just that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for
some suitable shape I came up with the following which uses
box drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a
fairly standard font that you will have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told
that the shape does not need to have anything typed into it
now. So all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be
replaced by the shape. Does this make the end result a
little easier now ? Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a
list of words or phrases, but the problem here is the
autoshape and more particularly your requirement to have a
shape that you can write in. The logical shape would be a
table cell, to which you could apply borders to produce
the four shapes and type in the space, but you cannot
intersperse table cells with text - each cell would have
to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges
of the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from
the Wingdings font, which would provide suitably
adventurous shapes, but you wouldn't be able to type in
the spaces - only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words
which are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and
bottom left). These words will then need to be replaced
by some kind of autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need
to become
_ Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the
right hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the
left hand side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the
typist can type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a
dental grid. I know how to record macros and i am happy
finding and replacing words, but this is proving quite
difficult to achieve. Is there any sort of vb script out
there that will accomplish this, what is the best way to
get the end result. I am very new to VB so my knowledge
is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance

lewisma

lewisma

Works well, now looks like this

Extract ┘ 5

Extract â””5

Extract � 5

Extract ┌5

Just need to work out how to remove the space for lines 1 and 3 which is
upper/bottom right
--
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

Are you sure that's it?

Locate the line
..Replacement.Font.Size = 14

and add the following immediately after it

Select Case i
Case 0
.Replacement.Font.Position = -4
Case 1
.Replacement.Font.Position = -4
Case 2
.Replacement.Font.Position = 4
Case 3
.Replacement.Font.Position = 4
Case Else
End Select

This will process each item of the original four in the replacement array in
order. Any others you have added to the end will not be affected.

As for moving the two items closer together add a space in the find strings
after both occurrences of 'left'
i.e.. "upper left " and "bottom left "

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
I know i'm being a pain, this is what it looks like so far.

Extract ? 5

Extract ? 5

Extract ? 5

Extract ? 5

Is it possible to close the spaces so there is not as much of a gap
between the symbol and the number, the top 2 phrases are upper so
they that symbol would need to go down 1 line and slighlty across and
the bottom 2 are for the lower phrase, looks like that needs to go up
1 line and slighlty across.
I want to see of i can align them a bit more accurately.

Thanks

You are welcome

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Fantastic, your a genius, works like a charm, many many thanks for
your help with this, it would have taken me forever to figure this
all out.

The phrases and their replacements are configured in the two arrays

vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left", "lower
right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492), ChrW(9488),
ChrW(9484))

The order in the first list corresponds with the order in the
second list, with each item separated by a comma. You can use
plain text or character strings. If you use the former you would
surround the text with straight quotes as shown in the first line.
In the second line I have used the unicode numbers for the
characters in the extended character set of the Arial font.

If you are looking up suitable characters use the Insert Symbol
command and browse through those available. Character 265B might be
suitable. Having chosen the character note the HEX number - here
265B, which you need to convert to its decimal equivalent. The
simplest way to do that is to use the Windows Calculator in its
Scientific view. With the Hex button checked, type in 265B, then
click the Dec button and if you have done it correctly you would
get 9819. So for that character you would enter ChrW(9819).

If you want a simple + sign then add "+" to the replace string
instead - or if you prefer ChrW(43)

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
This is fantastic, great job, one last thing if i wanted to add
another phrase in which would be something like everything or all
(this would be for upper right/left and lower right/left) i think
they would require the + symbol for this to allow for everything,
how do i add that into the current working script

Many thanks

Glad you were able to get there in the end

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Fantastic, i noticed on the script the wording was lower instead
of bottom, changed that and it looks great

Sorry i didn't spot the link when i read your reply. OK i have
tested this and it seems to work really well, how do i get the
script to change for bottom right/left. It only changes the
upper phrases but this is definatly looking good, i really
appreciate your help with this --
lewisma


"Graham Mayor" wrote:

http://www.gmayor.com/installing_macro.htm

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

This is fantastic, i will give it a try, what's the best way
to get the script into a macro, before i just went into
Word/Macro and Create Macro, named it and just pasted in the
script, should i be doing it that way or is there another
way to do this ? Thanks

If you can find suitable characters and substitute them in
and the font they are derived from in the macro I posted,
it will do just that.. Digging around in Unicode fonts for
some suitable shape I came up with the following which uses
box drawing shapes from the Arial Unicode font, which is a
fairly standard font that you will have.

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper left", "upper right", "lower left",
"lower right") vReplText = Array(ChrW(9496), ChrW(9492),
ChrW(9488), ChrW(9484))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Arial"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Graham

Many thanks for your quick response. I have just been told
that the shape does not need to have anything typed into it
now. So all that needs to be done is for the phrases to be
replaced by the shape. Does this make the end result a
little easier now ? Look forward to your comments, thanks

It is easy enough to run through a document and process a
list of words or phrases, but the problem here is the
autoshape and more particularly your requirement to have a
shape that you can write in. The logical shape would be a
table cell, to which you could apply borders to produce
the four shapes and type in the space, but you cannot
intersperse table cells with text - each cell would have
to be on its own line.

Text boxes etc are out because you cannot format the edges
of the box individually.

You could use (say) the characters 195/196 199/200 from
the Wingdings font, which would provide suitably
adventurous shapes, but you wouldn't be able to type in
the spaces - only alongside.

To do that -

Sub ReplaceList()
Dim vFindText As Variant
Dim vReplText As Variant
Dim i As Long
vFindText = Array("upper right", "upper left", _
"lower right", "lower left")
vReplText = Array(Chr(200), Chr(199), Chr(196), Chr(195))
With Selection
.HomeKey wdStory
With .Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
.MatchWildcards = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
For i = LBound(vFindText) To UBound(vFindText)
.Text = vFindText(i)
.Replacement.Text = vReplText(i)
.Replacement.Font.name = "Wingdings"
.Replacement.Font.Size = 14
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Next i
End With
End With
End Sub

--

Graham Mayor - Word MVP

My web site www.gmayor.com
Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org



lewisma wrote:
Hi

I need to create a macro which will look through word
documents. The macro will need to look for certain words
which are (upper right, upper left, bottom right and
bottom left). These words will then need to be replaced
by some kind of autoshape/symbol. Upper right would need
to become
_ Upper left would need to become _|
Bottom right would need to become | with a line on the
right hand side (at the top)
Bottom left would need to become | with a line on the
left hand side (at the top)
The autoshape/symbol also needs to be active so the
typist can type in a number of 1-8 in the box, this is a
dental grid. I know how to record macros and i am happy
finding and replacing words, but this is proving quite
difficult to achieve. Is there any sort of vb script out
there that will accomplish this, what is the best way to
get the end result. I am very new to VB so my knowledge
is very limited.
Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance