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Mia often edits documents containing run-on sentences. Invariably these are two sentences that are currently joined by a comma. Mia wants to replace the comma with a period and then capitalize the first letter of the next word. Doing this manually gets repetitive and time-consuming, so she would like to create a macro and a keyboard shortcut to handle the process.
You could actually record a macro to handle this type of edit. Put your insertion point to the left of the comma and start the macro recorder. You can then perform these steps:
You can now stop the macro recorder. The macro could be assigned to a shortcut key, or to a button on the toolbar (or, in Word 2007, to the Quick Access toolbar). If you examine the macro, you will find that it looks similar to the following:
Sub FixRunOn()
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, _
Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.TypeText Text:="."
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, _
Count:=1
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, _
Count:=1, Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.Range.Case = wdUpperCase
End Sub
Tip #492 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
Great Idea! Word is a tool to get what you really want—printed output. This means you need to make sure that Word works as well as possible with your printer, whether it is sitting on your desk or in a room down the hall.