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somebody@somewhere.com - 23 Feb 2006 11:47 GMT
I recorded and edited this macro to remove unwanted characters from a
word 2003 document. It does what I wanted and allows me to add or
change the characters as needed, but it seems the code is very
redundent and probably could be shortened to accomplish the same
results. Any help on this would be very much appreciated. Thanks in
advance.  Joe  

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Sub Macro1()
'
' Macro1 Macro
' Macro recorded 8/14/2005 by Joe
'
   Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
   Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "?"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
   Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "/"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "+"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = ">"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "@"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = ")"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "("
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "~"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "%"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "#"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "$"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "="
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "*"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "|"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = "-"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = ";"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
   With Selection.Find
       .Text = ":"
       .Replacement.Text = ""
       .Forward = True
       .Wrap = wdFindContinue
       .Format = False
       .MatchCase = False
       .MatchWholeWord = False
       .MatchWildcards = False
       .MatchSoundsLike = False
       .MatchAllWordForms = False
   End With
   Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
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Charles Kenyon - 23 Feb 2006 15:24 GMT
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>I recorded and edited this macro to remove unwanted characters from a
> word 2003 document. It does what I wanted and allows me to add or
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>    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
> End Sub
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Klaus Linke - 24 Feb 2006 02:52 GMT
You could also delete all the characters in one wildcard replacement
(replace with nothing):
Find what: [\?/+\>\@\)\(~%#$=\*|\-;:]

That's pobably quite a bit faster, too.

Some characters that are wildcards -- ?>@)(*- -- had to be "escaped" by a
backslash, to be interpreted literally.

Greetings,
Klaus
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