Microsoft KB Archive/306338

= Sample macro that uses a loop to find text in Word documents =

Article ID: 306338

Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Office Word 2007
 * Microsoft Office Word 2003
 * Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q306338



For a Microsoft Word 2000 version of this article, see 211458.

For a Microsoft Word 97 version of this article, see 170725.

For a Microsoft Word 98 version of this article, see 183643.



SUMMARY
The following sample macro searches for a specified paragraph style in a Microsoft Word 2002, Microsoft Office Word 2003 or Microsoft Office Word 2007 document and adds text to the beginning of each occurrence that it finds.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. Sub EditFindLoopExample 'This example inserts &quot;Tip: &quot; at the beginning of ' every paragraph formatted with the Heading 3 style. With ActiveDocument.Content.Find .ClearFormatting .Style = wdStyleHeading3 'The Do...Loop statement repeats a series of       ' actions each time this style is found. Do While .Execute(Forward:=True, Format:=True) = True With .Parent 'If the found text is the last ' paragraph in the document... If .End = ActiveDocument.Content.End Then .StartOf Unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdMove .InsertAfter &quot;Tip: &quot; Exit Do                   'If the found text is *not* the last ' paragraph in the document... Else .StartOf Unit:=wdParagraph, Extend:=wdMove .InsertAfter &quot;Tip: &quot; .Move Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=1 End If               End With 'Goes back to the beginning of the Do...Loop statement. Loop End With End Sub

