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From: Mark on 15 Feb 2010 02:12
Jay,

Your 2 macros also do what I asked for (as did Doug's macro). I did have to
play around a little with the the count for the for the paragraph and
character in the last 2 lines of each code (I have a tab after the number).

What I meant by saying that there was no easy way to select a variable
amount of text, was that I could not do this using the macro recorder in Word
just using Word commands. I assumed that there was an easy way to do this
with VBA programming but I am too much of a novice to figure it out.

Thanks for your help,

Mark
From: Mark on 15 Feb 2010 02:15
Macropod,

I did try to use find and replace using format but it would select stuff
above my selection and text that I had already typed. It may be my lack of
expertise in formatting but I could not make that work.

Thanks,

Mark
From: Jay Freedman on 15 Feb 2010 08:13
Mark,

The macro recorder in Word is very limited compared to what you can do
by writing VBA from scratch. In this case, though, you can get the
equivalent of my first macro by recording the use of the Extend
command (F8), which is less well-known than it should be.

After inserting the # character and positioning the cursor, turn on
the recorder and enter these keystrokes:

F8
#
Del
Ctrl+down arrow (twice)
Ctrl+right arrow (three times)

The macro I get from this is:

Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 2/15/2010 by Jay Freedman
'
Selection.Extend
Selection.Extend Character:="#"
Selection.Delete Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
Selection.MoveDown Unit:=wdParagraph, Count:=2
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdWord, Count:=3
End Sub

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
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On Sun, 14 Feb 2010 23:12:01 -0800, Mark
<Mark(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Jay,
>
>Your 2 macros also do what I asked for (as did Doug's macro). I did have to
>play around a little with the the count for the for the paragraph and
>character in the last 2 lines of each code (I have a tab after the number).
>
>What I meant by saying that there was no easy way to select a variable
>amount of text, was that I could not do this using the macro recorder in Word
>just using Word commands. I assumed that there was an easy way to do this
>with VBA programming but I am too much of a novice to figure it out.
>
>Thanks for your help,
>
>Mark
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