Recent content by dasmotiu

No, the previous version of the document was from about an hour before. I know where the code is located, (after all I had been stepping through the macro, as I said in my original post) and when I went back there, it was as if I had never recorded or written a single macro. Just to be sure...

I was just testing a new VBA macro in word, running it in the debugger step by step, and it reached an "insert hyperlink" statement which crashed word. After a while it seemed to recover, but the cursor was a long way away from where it had been, I needed to go to the end of the document which...

Thank you, I changed about 500 instances of that in about 2 seconds. I am extremely glad to have joined this board.

I have some text (actually a lot of text, about 300 pages) which has been "dumbed down" to flat ASCII and anything that was in italics has been surrounded by [brackets]. I have imported this text into Word, and since I am not a VBA expert, I'd like to write a simple VBA macro to remove the...

I forgot to say it's Word 2007

If I create a HyperLink at the front of a Word document, which points to a location further down the document, it works fine - ctrl-click on it and it goes there. And when I save it as html the link works, and the 'from' and 'to' parts are correct. Today I tried to delete a hyperlink of this...

Wow, is it that easy to use regular expressions in VBA? I though you had to shell out to something external like vbscript. I will try it. One small question, how does VBA know the search string you specified is a regular expression and not just a string of characters to be searched? For...

I have a need (I wont bother you with why) to find the next occurrence of three or more adjacent capital letters in the text of a Word document. I know I can loop through the text character by character but that approach is unbelievably slow. Is there a better method? I am using Office 2007.