macro help please

dendenden · 05-07-2008, 03:30 AM

Hello all this is my first post. I could do with your advice.

I have a 20 similar documents which share many repeating comments of 1 sentence long. I have to update these old comments with new edited comments.

I have created a table with two columns, containing the old comments and the corresponding new comments that I have edited. I plan to make a macro in Msword to find and replace the old comments for new, then run the macro on all 20 documents.

However the process of creating the macro in itself is likely to take considerable time due to the number of comments (approx 250- 500 in total).

And here’s the question: Is there a way to make the macro ‘look’ at the table to change the old comments for the new? Or is there an easier way to do this?

Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you require any other clarifications, please let me know, thanks in advance, Den.

05-07-2008, 03:30 AM	#1 (permalink)
dendenden Registered User Join Date: May 2008 Posts: 1 OS: xp	macro help please Hello all this is my first post. I could do with your advice. I have a 20 similar documents which share many repeating comments of 1 sentence long. I have to update these old comments with new edited comments. I have created a table with two columns, containing the old comments and the corresponding new comments that I have edited. I plan to make a macro in Msword to find and replace the old comments for new, then run the macro on all 20 documents. However the process of creating the macro in itself is likely to take considerable time due to the number of comments (approx 250- 500 in total). And here’s the question: Is there a way to make the macro ‘look’ at the table to change the old comments for the new? Or is there an easier way to do this? Any help would be greatly appreciated. If you require any other clarifications, please let me know, thanks in advance, Den.