So, I thought it would be great if I could run several find and replace commands in one go. I often use Find and Replace facility of MS Word. Now the question was how to do multiple find and replace operations on one click. Well, the answer has to involve a macro! Several tasks can be executed in any MS Word document by the way of macros. A macro is a set of several commands put together in a particular sequence. All you need is to write a macro and then keep running it on the target documents. For multiple find and replace, you can use a module like given below (I found it on Internet): In this macro program, the comma separated values in StrOld are the items to be replaced. Each item in this list will be replaced by the corresponding value given in StrNew string. Needless to say, both the strings should have equal number of values and obviously the sequence of the values does matter. You can write this macro by going in the Visual Basic Editor of Microsoft Word. I keep on writing articles about time saving MS-Word tips. Do subscribe my blog and keep on receiving great tips that will help you achieve greater productivity at work place. I hope this was useful for you. Please do let me know if you have any questions on this topic. Thank you for using TechWelkin! I would like to highlight special instances of text in a Word document by using wildcards. I’ve searched widely, but my particular circumstances don’t appear to be catered for. I’d like to transform ALL instances of [word [timestamp]] in a document, e.g. [inaudible [12:34]] so that the square brackets and all the contents are highlighted in yellow in one press, after set-up. I’ve tried the dialog box for find and replace / wildcards, etc. but cannot find a way through to achieving this with what would ultimately be one button press ! I thought I had it at one point when I set it up, pressed enter, and all my examples were highlighted in yellow… …BUT the original text was lost, and replaced with hundreds of[*]s. Hope someone can help because the time saved compared to doing this manually would be enormous, Many thanks, Paul 1)Remove red and green lines as per the specification. 2)Each and every new paragraph use indentation 0.5 and first alphabet superscript. 3)Give double space after full stop (.) question mark (?) and exclamatory mark (!) at anywhere dot is there double space required. 4)One space before opening bracket & after closing bracket and inverted comma 5)After comma one space. 6)Double hyphen (–) or big hyphen (─) before and after one space. 7)Give one space after colon (:) and semi colon (;) but not end of the line, statement and paragraph, Single hyphen (-) and Underscore (_) no space. 8)Remove the Bold, Italic & Underline. 9)If any words having double alphabets then will be expanded 0.5 pt & scale 50%. 10)Each and every Numeric used Super Script & Sub Script respectively. I have a 20 page doc, where i need to enter the address, phone number and name at different locations. And these three things will change for every new customer. Can you suggest some technique or macro code for the same? Something like, if i enter the address at one place in the doc, then it gets automatically filled at other locations too. Regards, Dylan Comment * Name * Email * Website
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