Word document and macro?

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Susan

I have recorded a macro and it works fine when applied to Word document.
Occassionally I have a few lines within the Word document that I do not want
the macro to change.

So I cut the lines out, run the macro, and then paste the lines back in. Is
there any easy way to protect those lines so that a macro will not change
them instead of cutting them out and then reinserting the lines?
 
Yes. Write a better macro.

No one can tell you how to protect unspecified lines from a Word macro that
you wrote or recorded. What is it that the macro does? My guess is that
there is a more direct way to accomplish the task such as applying a style.

Are you by chance someone who previously used Word Perfect? WP often uses
macros to do things that are more easily done in Word using built-in tool
like AutoText or styles.
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Charles Kenyon

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I use the macro to change bbcode to html which involves changing the [ ] to
< > for posting to html boards. The are sometimes lines with the [] which
are not the bbcode so these lines must not be changed. I will just have to
monitor those lines.
 
I suspect someone has written a macro that does what you want done. I would
recommend posting in the vba beginners newsgroup with a subject line of
"convert bb code to html with vba."
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Charles Kenyon

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Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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Susan said:
I use the macro to change bbcode to html which involves changing the [ ] to
< > for posting to html boards. The are sometimes lines with the [] which
are not the bbcode so these lines must not be changed. I will just have to
monitor those lines.

Charles Kenyon said:
Yes. Write a better macro.

No one can tell you how to protect unspecified lines from a Word macro
that you wrote or recorded. What is it that the macro does? My guess is
that there is a more direct way to accomplish the task such as applying a
style.

Are you by chance someone who previously used Word Perfect? WP often uses
macros to do things that are more easily done in Word using built-in tool
like AutoText or styles.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide


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