I am looking for a way to create a new document containing all the text with a specific format from my document.
See below for what I wrote so far, but I'm stuck here:
- how do I stop my loop when end of document is reached? or how do I add intelligence to my code to avoid a static loop, and rather do a "scan all my document"?
Option Explicit
Sub Macro1()
Dim objWord As Application
Dim objDoc As Document
Dim objSelection As Selection
Dim mArray() As String
Dim i As Long
Dim doc As Word.Document
For i = 1 To 100
ReDim Preserve mArray(i)
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
.Text = ""
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = True
.Execute
End With
mArray(i) = Selection.Text
Next
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add
objWord.Visible = True
Set objSelection = objWord.Selection
For i = 1 To 100
objSelection.TypeText (mArray(i))
Next
End Sub
Thanks to Cindy's nice tip (I could also have found relevant information in Loop through Word document, starting from beginning of file at start of each loop), and in case this could help someone some day:
define the format you are looking for thanks to Word's Macro Recorder
position yourself at the beginning of your document
Use a while
loop checking wdFindStop
-- It also demonstrate how to use Array of String in VBA--:
...
Sub Macro2()
Dim mArray() As String
Dim i As Long, n As Long
Dim doc As Word.Document
Dim isFound As Boolean
isFound = True
i = 1
'For i = 1 To 40
Do While (isFound)
ReDim Preserve mArray(i)
With Selection.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
.Text = ""
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = True
isFound = .Execute
End With
mArray(i) = Selection.Text
i = i + 1
Loop
'Next
n = i - 2
MsgBox n & " occurrences found."
'
' create a new document with the phrases found
Dim objWord As Application
Dim objDoc As Document
Dim objSelection As Selection
Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add
objWord.Visible = True
Set objSelection = objWord.Selection
For i = 1 To n 'mArray's Size
objSelection.TypeText (mArray(i))
objSelection.TypeParagraph
Next
End Sub
NB: I could also have greatly benefited from https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa211953%28v=office.11%29.aspx that explains how to find without changing the selection:
With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
.Text = "blue"
.Forward = True
.Execute
If .Found = True Then .Parent.Bold = True
End With
And from here: Find text only of style "Heading 1" (Range.Find to match style)