VBA-Excel: Find a word in a specific paragraph and change its formatting

To Find a word in a specific paragraph and change its formatting in an existing Microsoft Word Document using Microsoft Excel, you need to follow the steps below:

• Create the object of Microsoft Word
• Create Doc object using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path
• Make the MS Word visible
• Get the paragraphs count
• Get the paragraph object using Paragraphs.Range
• Find the specific word
• Do the formatting
• Save the word document
• Close the word document

Create the object of Microsoft Word

Set objWord = CreateObject(“Word.Application”)

Create Doc object using MS word object, Open the existing word document by providing the complete path

Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

Make the MS Word Visible

objWord.Visible = True

Get the paragraphs count

objDoc.Paragraphs.Count

Get the paragraph object using Paragraphs.Range

objDoc.Paragraphs(i).Range

Find the specific word

objParagraph.Find.Text = "paragraph"

Do

objParagraph.Find.Execute

If objParagraph.Find.Found Then

‘Formatting

Loop While objParagraph.Find.Found

Do the formatting

objParagraph.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"

Save the Word Document

objDoc.Save

Close the word document

objWord.Quit

Complete Code:

Function FnFindAndFormat()

   Dim objWord

   Dim objDoc

   Dim intParaCount

   Dim objParagraph

   Set objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")

   Set objDoc = objWord.Documents.Open("D:\OpenMe.docx")

   objWord.Visible = True 

   intParaCount = objDoc.Paragraphs.Count

   'MsgBox intParaCount

 Set objParagraph = objDoc.Paragraphs(2).Range    

     objParagraph.Find.Text = "paragraph"

     Do

         objParagraph.Find.Execute

         If objParagraph.Find.Found Then

            objParagraph.Font.Name = "Times New Roman"

            objParagraph.Font.Size = 20

            objParagraph.Font.Bold = True

            objParagraph.Font.Color = RGB(200, 200, 0)

        End If

 Loop While objParagraph.Find.Found  

End Function

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