Search-and-replace macro never works
- From: Liam Gibbs <liamgibbs@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 1 May 2007 12:50:20 -0700
Hello everyone,
I'm well aware that MS Word is not good with macros, but I never
realized to what extent until now. Here's the situation:
I'm trying to do a search-and-replace of my name in a certain style.
That's it.
So, when recording the macro, I do a search-and-replace, enter my name
plus a carraige return in the style "Centered". I enter nothing for
the replace field, as in I want to eliminate my name and leave
nothing. I do the search-and-replace, and it gets rid of them. End the
recording.
However, when I play the macro, it does nothing. I even get rid of the
^p, so that it's only looking for my name in the Centered style. No
love. Here's the thing. When I open up the search-and-replace dialog
box, instead of it looking for my name in Centered (i.e. I'm looking
at the criteria for the previous search), it was looking for Centered
with Border: Top (Single Solid Line, Auto, etc. etc.). Well, that's
not what I asked for. Where did it get the extra stuff? I looked at
the macro code, but I'm no expert and couldn't find anything out of
the ordinary.
What am I doing wrong? Or is this another of Microsoft's "features"?
.
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