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Ashish Sharma - 07 May 2008 15:10 GMT

With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Replacement.ClearFormatting
.MatchWholeWord = True
.Execute FindText:="Inc aa", _
ReplaceWith:="incorporated", Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End With

if my document contains below line of code
inc aa for the [COLOR="Red"]inc aabcde [/COLOR]and incart the inc aa

the above code will replace inc aabcde also

is this a bug in ms word

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John McGhie - 08 May 2008 09:05 GMT

No bug. The FindText:="Inc aa" is a partial string match.

Set the "Whole words only" option to True if you want an exact string match.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa213880(office.11).aspx

It's much safer to record these things with the Macro Recorder and paste the
result into your code. Saves looking up all these weird properties :-)

Cheers

On 8/05/08 12:10 AM, in article
BBC34985-B5C6-4C49-A09E-60366467D511@microsoft.com, "Ashish Sharma"
<AshishSharma@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

> With ActiveDocument.Content.Find
> .ClearFormatting
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> is this a bug in ms word

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