moving characters around in a word doc

[Omatase]

I'm having to manually manipulate about 400 characters in a word doc
individually. This process is very slow. Word seems to do a lot of
layout stuff each time I add or delete a character. Is there a way to
tell Word not to do the layout stuff when I do this to each character?
Like a way to turn off auto layout adjustment or something?

Thanks

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Omatase,

what kind of Word doc? Simple, complicated, long, short?
Dozens of tables, textboxes, cross references, pictures,
paragraph styles, character styles?

What do you mean by manipulate characters
or move them around?
Except with the mouse, which could be used to
move the selection to another place, IMHO,
characters can't be moved at all.

You can cut and paste,
or set the text of a range of a character
to the text of a range of another character...

One way could be, to save the doc as xml
and process the xml-code.

Or read all the document's text in a string
and process the string, which will ruin most
of the formatting.

Hard to give a better advice without further information.


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Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

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