Question

I was hoping someone could help with a MS Word Macro.

Basically, I have a MS Word document which lists out several text files and specific pages of interest in each file.

The file format is similar to:

 textdocument1.txt              P. 6, 12 - issue1 textdocument2.txt              P. 5 - issue1                                P. 13, 17 - issue3 textdocument3.txt              P. 10 

I want to read each line into my Macro as a string.

Then traverse through it to identify the file name. With the file name, I can then open the file, go to the page number, and copy the data I need.

But I’m stuck at step 1, how do I capture the line into a string in an MS Word Macro?

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

The following code should get you started:

Public Sub ParseLines()     Dim singleLine As Paragraph     Dim lineText As String      For Each singleLine In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs         lineText = singleLine.Range.Text          '// parse the text here...      Next singleLine End Sub 

I found the basic algorithm in this article.