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Creating & Editing Macros In M/S Word

[In which I moan about the abysmal macro-recorder in M/S Office, and show how to create and edit a macro.] I finished my previous article with a comment that I've long wanted to have a bit of a whinge...

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Adding Paragraph Tags Using M/S Word’s Find-Replace Function

Ever since I posted an article on Microsoft Word macros, I've had a steady-ish stream of searchers landing on the page, looking for how to enclose paragraphs in <p> … </p> tags using...

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Highlighting Text Between Two Strings In M/S Word

A couple of years back, when I first discovered macros, I kinda fell a bit in love with them. In particular I was entranced by the Visual Basic Editor packaged with Microsoft Office for the purpose of...

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I'll begin with a heads-up for John Zande. The first part of this might interest you, John, as I believe it meets a criterion you were asking about a while back. A kind soul of my acquaintance took it...

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A Macro To Tell If A String Is All Letters

A goodly while back someone, somewhere, asked me if there was a workaround for this and I said I'd get back to 'em. Problem is I can't remember where the question was asked, so I'm just going to post...

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Change Any Number To Text In Microsoft Word

When I were but a wee nipper, the words "billion" and "trillion" were hardly ever heard, outside of hyperbole, unless one had an interest in astronomy and cosmology. (And even then, we had to be...

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Using A Counter In A VBA Macro

T'other day, I knocked together a macro, for a friend, to number the paragraphs in a Microsoft Word document ("manual" rather than hard-coded numbering, that is): Sub NumberingParagraphs() Dim...

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An “UndoRecord” Workaround For Pre-2010 Versions Of Microsoft Word VBA

It's a thing which annoyed me a little until I found out that users of later (2010 and on) versions of M/S Word than mine could do it. Then, while it still would never have featured anywhere near my...

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A Strange Quirk When Changing Fonts In M/S Word VBA

Oh, what an exciting life I lead. My first post, in the early AM of the first day of the year, and what is the topic? Coding. Woohoo! Happy New Year! Anyways… Following a Computer Cock-Up Of...

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