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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / January 2006Find Parenthesis
Trying to find all parentheses() in a word document. Not wanting to replace them but copy them to another blank doc. I can find the begining "(" and the end ")" but can not get it to read the letters inside the Parentheses. Kev was telling us: Kev nous racontait que : > Trying to find all parentheses() in a word document. Not wanting to > replace them but copy them to another blank doc. I can find the > begining "(" and the end ")" but can not get it to read the letters > inside the Parentheses. Try this in the "Find What:" field of the Find dialog: \(*\) Make sure to check the "Use wild cards" box (Click on "More..." at the bottom of the dialog).  SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org Great, Is there a way to do that in VB.NET? I have been working on this for a while, I am new to programming and been stumped on this one for a while. > Kev was telling us: > Kev nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Make sure to check the "Use wild cards" box (Click on "More..." at the > bottom of the dialog). Kev was telling us: Kev nous racontait que : > Great, Is there a way to do that in VB.NET? I have been working on > this for a while, I am new to programming and been stumped on this > one for a while. What code do you have so far? SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org > Kev was telling us: > Kev nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > > What code do you have so far? Before we get headed in the wrong direction, this is what I am trying to do with this program. I am tryin to find all the acronyms in a document, compare them to a master table list with the definitions, then append the acronym and its definition in a table to the end of the document. The acronyms are always surrounded by parenthesis in the document but what I am not sure of is the best way to make this happen. 1. Is there a way to have VB.NET read the document and compare it to the acronym master table, leave the acronyms that are found in the document and remove the accronyms that are not found from the master list, then append the results the the end of the document? or 2. Scan the document for anything in parenthesis, compare to a database or the master list, get rid of the duplicates, then append all the found acronyms to the end of the document? or... 3. Is there a better way you see to do this? Thanks Kev was telling us: Kev nous racontait que : > Before we get headed in the wrong direction, this is what I am trying > to do with this program. I am tryin to find all the acronyms in a [quoted text clipped - 11 lines] > all the found acronyms to the end of the document? or... > 3. Is there a better way you see to do this? You can certainly do this with VB.Net, however, I am not proficient enough with VB.Net to give you actual code. But, what you need to do is: Create a master list in a template as a 2-column table. Create an array from all the items in parenthesis in your document, then sort it and remove duplicates. Create a document form your Master list template. For each item in the master list first column, compare to each item in the document array, if the master list item is not found, delete the corresponding table row. Finally, append that shorter version of the master list at then end of your document. Close without saving the document created from the master list. (I could do all this in VBA, or even VB6 if I had to, but VB.NET... I would have to spend too much time, which I do not have right now. Try writing the code for each step of the overall procedure, then post back in a new thread for each question you may have, unless someone already has this kind of VB.NET code ready to go...) SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org I was told that hashtables would be something to look into. In the little training I have with VB.NET or programming at all , I have no idea if this would help or make things easier. Do you have an opinion on hashtables? > Kev was telling us: > Kev nous racontait que : [quoted text clipped - 36 lines] > in a new thread for each question you may have, unless someone already has > this kind of VB.NET code ready to go...) Kev was telling us: Kev nous racontait que : > I was told that hashtables would be something to look into. In the > little training I have with VB.NET or programming at all , I have no > idea if this would help or make things easier. Do you have an opinion > on hashtables? Here is a link for info on this topic: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/cpref/html/frlr fsystemcollectionshashtableclasstopic.asp But, having never used them outside of a programming lesson, I cannot really advise you here. Since your need is simple (You only need to compare the info in the doc with the list once) and do not need to manipulate it further, I do not think that it would actually make you life easier or make the code run that much faster... But I could be wrong! SignatureSalut! _______________________________________ Jean-Guy Marcil - Word MVP jmarcilREMOVE@CAPSsympatico.caTHISTOO Word MVP site: http://www.word.mvps.org |
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