VB code to colour cells in a word table

[park_bench]

Hello All,

Do you think it would be possible (and relatively simple) to create a Macro using VB that looks through a table (or tables) in a word document and everywhere it finds a symbol, it gives the cell a colour?

For example, every cell with a '@' gets coloured red.

Thanks in advance everyone.

Ben

[EduTech]

I know this can be done, i have seen it done by a friend i used to work with.

He was abit of a Macro Genius, will give him a call see if i can get the info for you.

Regards

James.

[SYNACK]

This does it for a single instance, just need some loop code to get it to do the whole lot at once:

    Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = "@"
        .Replacement.Text = ""
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = False
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute
    Selection.SelectCell
    With Selection.Cells
        With .Shading
            .Texture = wdTextureNone
            .ForegroundPatternColor = wdColorAutomatic
            .BackgroundPatternColor = wdColorYellow
        End With
    End With

It will search the whole document though, not just cells.

This may help to, looping code for find:
http://visualbasic.about.com/library...ecvbai0303.htm

[srochford]

You can loop through the collection of tables and then do the search/replace on the contents of each table - I think that would work OK.

Is this just a one-off? If so, you can just use ordinary find/replace to specify a colour for the replacement text - this kind of thing is also handy when you want to change (say) 10 point Arial to 12 point Times Bold and you were evil enough to not use styles :-)

[park_bench]

This does it for a single instance, just need some loop code to get it to do the whole lot at once:

Thank you for that - you are right, that works perfectly for a single instance and every time you run it, it finds another cell to colour (until all the symbols have been coloured.

I need this to loop now until it has coloured all the cells...

as you will have guessed, I am a complete novice at VB and trying to learn it on the fly. I think I need a 'Do While' or 'Do Until' expression, but am unsure of what statement I need to stop it looping.

I need something like - Do Until {can't find '@'}

Can you suggest how I might do this please?

Thanks again.