Please Note: 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: Using a Macro to Change the Formatting of All Instances of a Word.
Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated October 13, 2018)
This tip applies to Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003
It is not uncommon to use repeating design elements in a document. For instance, you may want all occurrences of a particular word to appear in bold italics, at a certain point size. While you can certainly do the formatting by hand, it is much more efficient to allow a macro to do the work for you. By handling the formatting in this way, you don't need to worry about remembering how the word should appear. This macro, FormatWords, is an example of such a macro.
Please Note:
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 FormatWords()
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "Warning!"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Replacement.Font.Bold = True
.Replacement.Font.Italic = True
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWholeWord = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
When you run this macro, it searches for all occurrences of the word Warning (followed by an exclamation point) and changes the formatting on it so the word is bold and italics.
Note:
WordTips is your source for cost-effective Microsoft Word training. (Microsoft Word is the most popular word processing software in the world.) This tip (1762) applies to Microsoft Word 97, 2000, 2002, and 2003. You can find a version of this tip for the ribbon interface of Word (Word 2007 and later) here: Using a Macro to Change the Formatting of All Instances of a Word.
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2021-09-11 03:05:12
m. sourak
Hello, I am trying to create a macro that searches and colored and italic all the words in a document, including in the footnotes. by using table of words (list of words to highlight is taken from another file (mywords.doc).
But the search/highlight function only works for the text-body and not for the footnotes. Can you guide me? or give me a macro?
2019-11-05 05:26:24
harish doshi
i want macro which can seprate the each word in document by space with page no
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