How can I collect a list of tags from a document and build a list ofthem for filling a ComboBox from

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Ricky Marek

How can I get a list of unique tags collected from a document by running a search operation.

The tags are composed a single word enclosed by '[#' and ']' or '[!' and ']'.
For example [#ABC], [#FOO], [!FOO], [!BAR], [!WXYZ].

The tags may appear more than once in the document, therefore I should ignore the duplicated ones and build a unique list of tags. (The tags collected from the example above would be "ABC", "BAR", "FOO", "WXYZ")

It would be nice to have them sorted as well :)

The idea is to generate the list and use it to fill a user form combo box, filled dynamically.

Can you give an idea how to run this?

The code I was using is similar to:

Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
With Selection.Find
.Text = "(\[[!#])(*)(\])"
.Replacement.Text = ""
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.MatchWildcards = True
End With

But this runs on all the document and removes the tag.. How do I do for collecting the tag without removing?


Thanks in advance.

--- Ricky Marek.
 

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