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When you are doing document proofreading or editing someone else's document you may need to do repetitive actions. A cue you want to use a macro.

There is a free ebook you can download written by a professional book editor that contains a collection of macros he uses. It introduces a powerful Find/Replace/Edit macro tool he calls "FREdit"



Macros for Editors (Download)
http://archivepub.co.uk/book.html
by Paul Beverly.
This is a free book, which you can download (in zip format) (version: 20 Jan 2022). It contains over 800 macros that will help with a range of different tasks around writing and editing using Microsoft Word.

Table of Contents
General introduction
Introduction to macros
Downloading and running macros
Favourite tools of editors
Favourite tools of proofreaders
Proofreading a book – a possible workflow
Book editing – a possible workflow
Tools for different aspects of editing
Macro Menu – complete macro tool list
Textual analysis
Main pre-editing tool – FRedit
FRedit Manual
Pre-editing tools
Editing – text change
Editing – information
Editing – highlighting
Editing – navigation
Editing – comment handling
Editing – track changes
Other tools
Appendix 1 – Codes for F&R
Appendix 2 – Codes for non-wildcard F&R
Appendix 3 – Codes for wildcard F&R
Appendix 4 – Some useful wildcard expressions
Appendix 5 – ASCII codes
Appendix 6 – Useful unicode numbers
Appendix 7 – Sample stylesheet
Appendix 8 – Sample FRedit list
Appendix 9 – Word 365 options
Appendix 10 – Word 365 menu items
Appendix 11 – Word 2010 options
Appendix 12 – Backing up the Normal Template
Appendix 13 – Word Macro Techniques
Appendix 14 – Video list
Appendix 15 – Macros on video
Appendix 16 – FRedit library
Changes log

The macros RemoveDuplicateWords and FixWordDups will remove duplicate words that are separated by spaces but not by other delimiters such a period or semicolon. This is usually what you want so that a word ending a sentence can be repeated at the start of the next sentence.

FixWordDups requires the same number of spaces following each word but RemoveDuplicateWords will remove the second word even if there are differing numbers of spaces after each word, for example if the second word is at the end of a sentence.

To make FixWordDups do the same, change the line:
If a = b Then
to,
If Trim(a) = Trim(b) Then