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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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