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One of the nifty things about programming VBA macros is that the language is object-oriented. This means that you can access every part of your document using objects and collections of objects. In other words, you can manipulate paragraphs without ever needing to select them.
For instance, let's say you wanted to access each paragraph of a document, in turn, and do some processing on the text in that paragraph. Since each paragraph is a distinct object in the document, this is relatively easy. All of the paragraph objects are accessible as part of the Paragraphs collection. The following code will do the trick:
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iParCount = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count
For J = 1 To iParCount
sMyPar = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(J).Range.Text
[Add processing comments to manipulate sMyPar]
ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(J).Range.Text = sMyPar
Next J
The first line of the code sets iParCount equal to the number of paragraphs in the current document. The loop starting in the second line then does the main work in the macro. The third line set the sMyPar string equal to the text within the specified paragraph. (When J is equal to 1, you are working with the first paragraph. When J is equal to 2, it is the second paragraph—and so on.)
After the processing of sMyPar is complete, then the next line sets the document text equal to the modified text in the sMyPar string.
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2017-09-06 09:13:39
Allen
Steve: It actually depends on how you define "object-oriented." This is a debate that has been raging for quite some time. The VBA language has been around for 20 years, and when it was released it met was was (at the time) the full definition of being object oriented. In the last 20 years the mainstream OOP world has progressed quite a bit, but VBA has not progressed nearly as much. This is especially true when it comes to one of the fundamental aspects of OOP--inheritance, which VBA does not support.
Even with that acknowledgement, the general consensus I've seen is that it is more OOP than not and is, thus, considered an object-oriented programming language. There's a great discussion on this which you might find interesting over on the StackOverflow site.
-Allen
2017-09-06 04:48:54
Steve Vink
Just a point on your terminology. The VBA language is not object-oriented. It uses an Object Model, but this is a very different thing. Object-Oriented languages would, as a simple example, allow you to take a class such as "Paragraph" and extend it with additional properties of your own, or implement additional events that it could respond to.
2017-05-08 06:25:43
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I have hundreds of pages of a technical document with lots of tables in them. Reoccurring throughout is a five row/two column table that has a label in the first row that always begins with "Process diagram" . I am looking for code that will go through the doc and delete each of these tables. Can anyone help?
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