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Swapping Two Strings
Summary: Part of developing macros is learning how to use and manipulate variables. This tip examines a technique you can use to exchange the contents of two string variables. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007.)
If you do any serious macro programming, there will eventually come a time when you want to swap the values in two strings. In some versions of BASIC, there are commands that handle this. VBA leave us to our own devices, however. The following technique should do the trick for most people:
TempString = MyString1 MyString1 = MyString2 MyString2 = TempString
When completed, the values in MyString1 and MyString2 have been swapped, and TempString doesn't matter, since it was intended (by this technique) as a temporary variable anyway.
Tip #789 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
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