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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. If you examine the macro, you will find that it looks similar to the following:
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This article is written for users of the following Microsoft Word versions: 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. If you are using a later version (Word 2007 or later), this tip may not work for you. For a version of this tip written specifically for later versions of Word, click here: 
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
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2012-09-15 21:46:30
Kitty Hawk
Grammar Girl says run-on sentences are two or more sentences joined together "without" punctuation. Therefore she would disagree with your statement that run on sentences are two sentences joined with a comma. Having taught english grammar, I agree with her. What you have in your description is a compound sentence.
See: http://grammar.quickanddirtytips.com/run-on-sentences.aspx
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