Written by Allen Wyatt (last updated November 23, 2022)
This tip applies to Word 2007, 2010, 2013, 2016, 2019, and 2021
Marc is looking for the fastest, most efficient way—within a macro—to determine a count of how many times a particular text string occurs within a document. Unfortunately there is no way to do this with a simple command or two; instead you need to "step through" a document using the Find and Replace feature of Word.
First, make a temporary copy of your document so that you don't run the risk of messing up your original document. Then use a variable in your macro to count the number of times the desired text gets replaced, and increment the variable every time a replacement occurs. In the following example, the number of times will end up in the variable Replacements. You can then use the value or convert the value to a string to display it.
Sub CountReplacements Dim Replacements As Integer Replacements = 0 Selection.Find.ClearFormatting Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting With Selection.Find .Text = InputBox("Enter the text you want to find:") .Replacement.Text = InputBox("Enter the replacement text:") .Forward = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Format = False .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne Do Until Not .Found .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne Replacements = Replacements + 1 Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1 Loop If Replacements <> 0 Then MsgBox _ "" & .Text & " has been replaced " & _ CStr(Replacements) & " times with " & _ .Replacement.Text Else MsgBox .Text & " was not found in the document/selection." End If End With End Sub
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2022-11-23 06:19:28
Frix
Bonjour,
Je pense qu'il est plus simple d'utiliser la commande "Rechercher - remplacer"
Introduire la chaîne de texte particulière à rechercher puis demander "Lecture du surlignage" "Tout surligner"
Word indique alors le nombre d'éléments surlignés
Hello,
I think it is easier to use the "Find - Replace" command
Enter the particular text string to be searched and then ask for "Read highlighting" "Highlight all"
Word then shows the number of highlighted items
2018-07-21 05:59:47
Ken Endacott
The macro CountReplacements does not emulate manual Find & Replace and give a true count of text string occurrences.
Manual Find & Replace searches the whole document whereas VBA Find and Replace only searches the current story. The macro CountReplacements searches the body of the document only and not other parts such as text boxes, headers, footers. footnotes and endnotes. A more elaborate macro is needed to search the whole document.
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