Vba word selection find if not found

I’ve created a MS Word macro that searches for certain text (indicated by markup codes), cuts the text and inserts it into a new footnote, and then deletes the markup codes from the footnote. Now I want the macro to repeat until it doesn’t find any more markup codes in the text.
Here’s the macro below

Sub SearchFN()

'find a footnote
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
    .Text = "&&FB:*&&FE"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindContinue
    .Format = False
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .MatchKashida = False
    .MatchDiacritics = False
    .MatchAlefHamza = False
    .MatchControl = False
    .MatchByte = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchFuzzy = False
    .MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute

'cut the footnote from the text
Selection.Cut

'create a proper Word footnote
With Selection
    With .FootnoteOptions
        .Location = wdBottomOfPage
        .NumberingRule = wdRestartContinuous
        .StartingNumber = 1
        .NumberStyle = wdNoteNumberStyleArabic
    End With
    .Footnotes.Add Range:=Selection.Range, Reference:=""
End With

'now paste the text into the footnote
Selection.Paste

'go to the beginning of the newly created footnote
'and find/delete the code for the start of the note (&&FB:)
    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
With Selection.Find
    .Text = "&&FB:"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = False
    .Wrap = wdFindContinue
    .Format = False
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .MatchKashida = False
    .MatchDiacritics = False
    .MatchAlefHamza = False
    .MatchControl = False
    .MatchByte = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchFuzzy = False
    .MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
With Selection
    If .Find.Forward = True Then
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
    Else
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
    End If
    .Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne
    If .Find.Forward = True Then
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
    Else
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
    End If
    .Find.Execute
End With

'do same for ending code (&&FE)
With Selection.Find
    .Text = "&&FE"
    .Replacement.Text = ""
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindContinue
    .Format = False
    .MatchCase = False
    .MatchWholeWord = False
    .MatchKashida = False
    .MatchDiacritics = False
    .MatchAlefHamza = False
    .MatchControl = False
    .MatchByte = False
    .MatchAllWordForms = False
    .MatchSoundsLike = False
    .MatchFuzzy = False
    .MatchWildcards = True
End With
Selection.Find.Execute
With Selection
    If .Find.Forward = True Then
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
    Else
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
    End If
    .Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceOne
    If .Find.Forward = True Then
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
    Else
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
    End If
    .Find.Execute
End With

Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
'now repeat--but how??    

End Sub

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Answers

• Hi,

  Based on my understanding, Did you want get all of the unique words from a document and create list with these words.

  If so , you can just set wildcards to «?*[ |,|.|;|’|:|?]» like below:

  Sub Main()
  Dim List As New Collection
  Dim r As Range
  Set r = ActiveDocument.Range
  r.Select
  
  With Selection.Find
      .ClearFormatting
      .text = "?*[ |,|.|;|'|:|?]"
      .Forward = True
      .Wrap = wdFindStop
      .MatchWildcards = True
      .MatchCase = False
      .MatchWholeWord = False
      .MatchAllWordForms = False
      .MatchSoundsLike = False
      .MatchWildcards = True
  End With
  Do While Selection.Find.Execute
  
  Dim strResult As String
  strResult = Left(Selection.text, Len(Selection.text) - 1)
  
      If (Not IsContainValue(List, strResult)) Then
          List.Add (strResult)
      End If
  Loop
  
  End Sub
  
  Function IsContainValue(List As Collection, text As String) As Boolean
      For Each Item In List
          If (Item = text) Then
              IsContainValue = True
              Exit Function
          End If
      Next Item
      IsContainValue = False
  End Function
  

  This sample code can find all of words in document and save these to List collection.

  Regards,

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  • Marked as answer by
    sluice
    Tuesday, February 11, 2014 10:20 AM