a problem with "find and Replace"

Question

Hi

I have a text with some text boxes and footnotes.

I have to use "find and Replace" to do some changes before paragraph marks. For example, search for points at the end of paragraphs.

I know that "find and Replace" does not work well for paragraph marks in footnotes.

The question is this: I want to know the number of replacements in text and text boxes.

But the problem is:

1-      If I use "search all" and then "Replace all", the replacements are done in text and text boxes, but the number of replacements is not shown.

2-      If I use "search down" and then "Replace all", the replacements are done only in text, not in text boxes, and the number of replacements are shown.

Is there a way to have replacements in text and text boxes together, and have the number of replacements shown, too?

Answer 1

You would need to combine the first macro in https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/MacrosVBA/GetNoOfReplacements.htm with the macro in https://wordmvp.com/FAQs/Customization/ReplaceAnywhere.htm.  (If you don't care about the other "stories" in the document, such as headers and footers, the latter macro can be restricted to the stories wdMainTextStory, wdFootnotesStory, and wdTextFrameStory.)

If you aren't familiar with the macro language (VBA), post in the Office programming section of the forum, https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/msoffice_word-msoffice_custom, and explain exactly what you need to do. You can link back to this thread.

Answer 2

Dear Jay

Hi

Thank you for your reply.

I have to try to get familiar with the macro language (VBA), off course. 

I hoped it could be done more easily. 

Regards