The following code works, but it performs everything on the entire document. I'd like to highlight a block of text, then when I run the macro only have it work on the highlighted text. How do I do that? Thanks...
Sub DoCodeNumberStyle(numchars As String)
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
.Text = "(^13)([0-9]{" + numchars + "}) "
.Replacement.Text = "\1###\2$$$ "
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindAsk
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("CodeNumber")
With Selection.Find
.Text = "###([0-9]{" + numchars + "})$$$"
.Replacement.Text = "\1"
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindAsk
.Format = True
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
Sub CodeNumberStyle()
DoCodeNumberStyle ("1")
DoCodeNumberStyle ("2")
End Sub
PostScript:
One additional thing I've discovered: if you do more than one find on a Selection, the first find loses/changes the Selection, so the others are no longer bounded by the original Selection (and a wdReplaceAll will continue to the end of the document). To fix this, capture the Selection into a Range. Here's the final version of my method, which now does everything I need, is restricted to the original highlighted selection (even with 3 find-and-replacements), and has also been minimized, code-wise:
Sub AAACodeNumberStyleHighlightedSelection()
With Selection.Range.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("Code")
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
' First line:
.Text = "1 //"
.Replacement.Text = "###1$$$ //"
.MatchWildcards = False
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
' Rest of lines:
.Text = "(^13)([0-9]{1,2}) "
.Replacement.Text = "\1###\2$$$ "
.MatchWildcards = True
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
' Now style the line numbers:
.Text = "###([0-9]{1,2})$$$"
.Replacement.Text = "\1"
.Replacement.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("CodeNumber")
.MatchWildcards = True
.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With
End Sub