replace text in an opened file

  • 18 years ago

    Hi,
    Can someone help me here?  I am opening a word doc and trying to replace a text in the document.  For eg: I found the word 'hello' and I want to replace it with 'hi'.  How do I do it?
    thanks

  • 18 years ago

    Here's Word's version of a solution to your problem:


    Sub HelloHi()
    '
    ' HelloHi Macro
    ' Macro recorded 21/03/02
    '
      Selection.WholeStory
      Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
      Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
      With Selection.Find
         .Text = "Hello"
         .Replacement.Text = "Hi"
         .Forward = True
         .Wrap = wdFindAsk
         .Format = False
         .MatchCase = False
         .MatchWholeWord = False
         .MatchWildcards = False
         .MatchSoundsLike = False
         .MatchAllWordForms = False
      End With
      Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    End Sub


    Incorporate this into your code and see if it helps.

  • 18 years ago

    Thank you for your help.  But, mine is getting a bit more complicated.  What if I want to find every whole word that starts with 'hello'?  For eg: How do I find "<helloJohn>" and "<helloSmith>".  All I know is that it starts with '<hello' but I need to grab the whole word '<Hello_John>'.  Is it possible to get the whole word? Can someone help?
    thank you.

  • 18 years ago

    ok.  I got it working half way.  
    I am able to find every text that starts with '<hello' and can change to '<hi'.  But, I need to grab the whole text, then replace it.   How can grab the whole text and store it?


    find:  <helloJohn>
            <hello
    William>


    replace:  <hiJo>
                  <hi
    Will>


    I can do:  <hiJohn>
                   <hi
    William>  Can not change the whole text.
    Pleeeeeeeeeeeeeeese help!

  • 18 years ago

    As you’re looking for different strings and looking to replace each one with a unique string, you’ll probably need to do a loop to search through the document for each string, replacing it, then looping through again to replace the next one, unless you can come up with a way of using the Select Case command.

  • 18 years ago

    Yes, I did try to loop through the whole document.  But what happened was, I wasn't able to grab the whole string.  I used selection.find.text = 'hello' and used a loop to replace.  But, it only replaced the word 'hello' not the whole string 'hello_John'.  Is it possible to get the whole string if I know every string that I need to replace starts with 'hello'???  Then, I can loop and replace them.
    thank you.

  • 18 years ago

    Insert this bit of code after you have found "hello".  It will extend the selection to the end of the next word.  


                 Selection.MoveEnd wdWord, 2


    You could then put the contents of the selection into a string and manipulate it using string functions.


    Hope this helps


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