find diacritics with vba

[leroivroro]

Hello.
I'm trying to make a macro who search words who contains diacritics.I have the code :

Sub test()
Dim x As String
x = InputBox("What Date?")
Cells.Find(What:=x).Select
End Sub

..but finds only word without diacritics. Can you help me pls? Thank you!

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

All that VB knows is the ASCII code of a character. It know nothing about the graphics within the font.

Your code does not seem to relate to your question.

Skip,

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[SkipVought]

You could create a table of characters that contain diacritics.

First use the table to qualify the entered word. Then, if the word qualifies, search the document.

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[GlennUK]

Can you give an example of exactly what you want?

Cheers, Glenn.

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[fumei]

leroivroro, your code does not find diacritics because you do not tell it to look for diacritics. As Glen asks, tell us exactly what you want it to do.

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Gerry
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[leroivroro]

Ok, let's see:
I have a column with the name of objects (let's say is column A) and these names have diacritics. I want to create a search or a find function , to seek in column A , for a specific name of an object that is typed from keyboard (this is my macro who I created for). I'm stuck here!
Maybe is there a way to run the "Find" command (wich can be lunched manually from "Edit" menu of Excel) from inside of a macro? And to capture the results to know if search was successfuly or not? The "Find" command from "Edit" menu works and finds the diacritics.I tried manually. Thank you for your patience!

 

[PHV]

The macro recorder is your friend ...

 

[leroivroro]

The code above, is taken from macro recorder. That's all that records! So... isn't much helpfull... !

 

[SkipVought]

Enter into a CELL, rather than an inputbox.

How do you enter an à? I have to use the SYMBOL Box.


Skip,

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Tooth Company Freeze a Crowd! and
Many are Cold, but Few are Frozen!}

 

[macropod]

Hi leroivroro,

The code you posted did not come from the macro recorder, and will not work with text of any kind - it demands integers!!

Cheers

[MS MVP - Word]

 

[macropod]

Sorry - it's not that it demands integers, but that it "expects" dates rather than just any text string.

Cheers

[MS MVP - Word]

 

[GlennUK]

How are you typing the diacritics into the InputBox prompt exactly? If you do type them in, the Find will work. ( for example à can be typed using ALT-0224 )

Cheers, Glenn.

Did you hear about the literalist show-jumper? He broke his nose jumping against the clock.

 

[leroivroro]

I change from language bar, the language of my interest and I type from keyboard the diacritics, normally, where are assigned from the operating system. And that's why I think that the Find command from menu display's correctly diacritics and my MsgBox don't!

 

[SkipVought]

What macropod pointed out regarding entering a DATE is CRITICAL.

A DATE is not TEXT. The TEXT that you enter in a CELL, Excel has some smarts, and figgures out that you want a DATE and not TEXT, and Excel COMVERTS your TEXT to a REAL DATE (which is REALLY a NUMBER) and then DISPLAYS the NUMBER in a Date Format.

That CONVERSION does not happen when you enter what you think is a date in a textbox, input box etv. You have to do the CONVERSION yourself.

x = InputBox("What Date?")
Cells.Find(What:=[b]DateValue(x)[/b]).Select

Skip,

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Tooth Company Freeze a Crowd! and
Many are Cold, but Few are Frozen!}

 

[xwb]

Diacritics are very specific. There is no easy way of doing this. You need a lookup table of some sort. For instance,

a =41, 61, C0 to C5, E0 to E5, 100 to 106, 1CD, 1CE, 1FA, 1FB
e =45, 65, C8 to CB, E8 to EB, 112 to 11B

You basically need to pick out which letters have diacritics and substitute the different combinations. For European characters, you only need to go until 0x200. No point going any further as there won't be any European characters there.

Alternatively, you could invert the table. Convert the text you are scanning from diacritic form to non diacritic lowercase and just do a normal comparison.

 

[fumei]

Sub test()
Dim x As String
x = InputBox("What Date?")
Cells.Find(What:=x).Select
End Sub

The code above, is taken from macro recorder. That's all that records! So... isn't much helpfull... !

That is an out and out falsehood. A recorded macro would not look like that.

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Gerry
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