Help With Writing A Word Macro

[fahadqureshi]

I am trying to write a word macro that scans the documents and highlights all the numbers that are less then .95
is this possible to do using a word macro?

i guess i really only need the command that selects a range of numbers.
like if number < .95 or something like that. i am not really a vba person and am used to writing only c++ and python scripts.

[kadghar]

I am trying to write a word macro that scans the documents and highlights all the numbers that are less then .95
is this possible to do using a word macro?

i guess i really only need the command that selects a range of numbers.
like if number < .95 or something like that. i am not really a vba person and am used to writing only c++ and python scripts.

i dont know if there's an easy method, but with a DO and a couple of IF it can be done. Something like:

Sub prueba()
Dim i As Double
Dim j As Integer
Dim Dou1 As Double
Selection.Start = 0
Selection.End = 0
For i = 1 To ActiveDocument.Characters.Count
    j = Asc(ActiveDocument.Characters(i))
    If (j >= 48 And j <= 57) Or j = 46 Then
        If Selection.End < i - 1 Then
            Selection.Start = i - 1
            Selection.End = i
        Else
            Selection.End = i
        End If
    Else
        If Selection.End = i - 1 Then
            Dou1 = Selection.Text
            If Dou1 < 0.95 Then
                Selection.Font.Bold = True
            End If
        End If
    End If
Next
End Sub

HTH

[fahadqureshi]

i am getting a type mismatch at the

Dou1 = Selection.Text
 

The file does contain letters and numbers and different characters in it. Could there be a mismatch because i, j, Dou1 are all defined as numbers. Also, i am sure there is a good reason for it, but why is this line in the code and what does it do:

If (j >= 48 And j <= 57) Or j = 46 Then
 

[kadghar]

i am getting a type mismatch at the

Dou1 = Selection.Text
 

The file does contain letters and numbers and different characters in it. Could there be a mismatch because i, j, Dou1 are all defined as numbers. Also, i am sure there is a good reason for it, but why is this line in the code and what does it do:

If (j >= 48 And j <= 57) Or j = 46 Then
 

actually the error was because there are periods without numbers. because it searches for numbers an dots, and if it finds a dot without a number and try it as a number it will show you the error. so all you have to do is in the line above the error, change the IF for this one

If Selection.End = i - 1 And (Selection.End - Selection.Start > 1) Then

That will check if the selected ranges are bigger than one... (this will fix this problem, but if you use suspensive, it will give you an error again because you'll have "..." that is larger than one but still no number).

what im doing is using an integer "j" to store the ascii code of each character

the ascii code for 0 is 48 , the code for 9 is 57 and all the numbers are between them. 46 is for a dot.

HTH

[fahadqureshi]

ohhhh ok. well in that case i am still getting an error because i have many ....... in a row in various places.

this is what my document looks like and i want to highlight the number in the middle that are less then .95000 aditionally i want to highlight the number to the right of it and the numbers and text to the left of it as well but that might be too complicated.

42062 ALTA_L98 69.000 0.95212 0.98269
42820 HS_TAP69 69.000 0.93047 0.97650
44400 KARSTN 9 69.000 0.92176 0.97748
42080 ALVIN 9 69.000 0.92959 0.97614
44380 JULIFF 69.000 0.92045 0.98942
44440 MANVEL 9 69.000 0.92236 0.97481

my document also contains all kinds of different characters and symbols like:
-, <, >, $, :, &, etc.

[kadghar]

ohhhh ok. well in that case i am still getting an error because i have many ....... in a row in various places.

...

my document also contains all kinds of different characters and symbols like:
-, <, >, $, :, &, etc.

Then i think the easiest way to make it work will be making it ignore this errors, since "....." cant be compared, it will never highlight so just ask vb not to tell you that it isnt a number. Add this line before the FOR starts:

on error resume next

Now for the other numbers you wanted to hightlight, give it a try by yourself using selection.start and selection.end

HTH