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macro delete between brackets

Anonymous
2012-04-09T07:57:46+00:00

this macro no longer works.  i swear it was working a moment ago

Sub DeleteBetween()

  With ActiveDocument.Content.Find

    .Text = "[*]"

    .Replacement.Text = ""

    .ClearFormatting

    .Replacement.ClearFormatting

    .MatchWildcards = False

    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll

  End With

End Sub

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HansV 462.6K Reputation points
2012-04-09T09:24:16+00:00

You must use

          .MatchWildcards:=True

since the search string contains a wildcard *.

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  1. Anonymous
    2012-04-09T10:21:45+00:00

    I tried that and nothing happened.  this time when i tried it it worked.  thanks

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