Search Macro that Pauses for User Input

[LizW]

Hi there,

In our law office, I'm trying to create a macro that will
search a document for variables that will change. It
should bring up the search dialog box or prompt for the
keyword, and then look for it. After that, it should
repeat again until the user presses escape.

Any ideas? Thanks so much.

 

[Perry]

Use the macrorecorder.
http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/UsingRecorder.htm

While the recorder is in Record mode, do the actions you would perform
to bring up the Find/Replace dialog ...etc.

Here are a couple of additional articles relating to your quest
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/odeopg/html
/deovrthefindreplacementobjects.asp

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/off2000/htm
l/womthexecutefindobj.asp

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/ReplceTextWithDoc.htm

http://www.mvps.org/word/FAQs/MacrosVBA/ClearFind.htm

If you get stuck, kindly repost indicating which Office version y're running
and include some relevant parts of code that are likely to be the buggers.

Krgrds,
Perry