Macros and track changes Amy 27.06.2006 17:09:02 Hi, I have created some macros that do various "find/replace" actions. But I notice that the macros do not work when "track changes" is turned on. Is there a way to run these kinds of macros with track changes turned on? Thanks Amy

Re: Macros and track changes "Dave Lett" <davelett[ at ]NOaolSPAM.com> 27.06.2006 17:16:28 Hi Amy, It seems to work fine in my environment (Windows XP and Word 2003) ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = True With Selection.Find .Text = "test" With .Replacement .Text = "Replaced" End With .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll End With HTH, Dave "Amy" <Amy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:75F75A97-ACC9-4D81-B4F3-B1EF4720D490[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi, I have created some macros that do various "find/replace" actions. But > I > notice that the macros do not work when "track changes" is turned on. Is > there a way to run these kinds of macros with track changes turned on? > > Thanks > Amy

Re: Macros and track changes "Jay Freedman" <jay.freedman[ at ]verizon.net> 27.06.2006 17:19:56 The idea is to find out whether Tracking is on, and save that result in a variable. Then turn off Tracking, do your work, and finally restore the original state. Here's code: Dim WasTrackingOn As Boolean WasTrackingOn = ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False ' do your find/replace operations here ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = WasTrackingOn Of course, if you use a variable of Document type to work on some other document, substitute that variable for ActiveDocument. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. Amy wrote: [Quoted Text] > Hi, I have created some macros that do various "find/replace" > actions. But I notice that the macros do not work when "track > changes" is turned on. Is there a way to run these kinds of macros > with track changes turned on? > > Thanks > Amy

Re: Macros and track changes Helmut Weber <nbhymsjxdgcn[ at ]mailinator.com> 27.06.2006 17:20:18 Hi Amy, not really, IMHO. Unless you *must* track changes, make sure, track track changes is turned of. Otherwise, you'd have to check whether the range of the found text has a revisions count > 0. Still there is the danger of endless loops. -- Greetings from Bavaria, Germany Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA Win XP, Office 2003 "red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

Re: Macros and track changes "Jonathan West" <jwest[ at ]mvps.org> 28.06.2006 09:23:47 "Amy" <Amy[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:75F75A97-ACC9-4D81-B4F3-B1EF4720D490[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] > Hi, I have created some macros that do various "find/replace" actions. But > I > notice that the macros do not work when "track changes" is turned on. Is > there a way to run these kinds of macros with track changes turned on? > > Thanks > Amy The problem is probably that the macros are working, but the conditions are not as you would expect them to be, Suppose you originally had "this whole phrase" in the document, and then decided to delete "whole". So you now have "this phrase", and you do a search on that string. The Find will *not* find it, because "whole" is still there but marked with a deletion. Furthermore, if deleted text is hidden, the Find won't find "this whole phrase" either, but it will find it if the deleted text is marked with strikethrough or some other visible formatting. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup Keep your VBA code safe, sign the ClassicVB petition www.classicvb.org