Additionally, the TextFrame in any shape object located in a header/footer storyranges can appear immune to VBA processing.

For example the storyrange for the primary header in one document section may or may not be linked and the same as the storyrange for the primary header in another section.

Complicating matters further, some storyranges are linked or cascade through the document.

There are up to 16 document layers (or storyranges) in a Word 2010 document.

A Word document can, in a sense, be compared to a human anatomical flip chart where the first sheet is the main text (or main storyrange), flip that over and you have a drawing layer, flip that over and you have first page headers and footers, and so on.

If you change the document focus to say a header and run the procedure again, then matching text in the header is found. This means that if the procedure you record is run with the document focus in the main text storyrange then only matching text in the main text storyrange is found.

Unlike the global scope of a native 'Find and Replace' operation, a VBA procedures scope is limited to a targeted range (or more accurately a targeted storyrange).

If you record a macro of running a Find and Replace operation and then run that macro, the magic of Find and Replace seems to have lost some of the shine. Seemingly by magic it can find anything and replace it with anything else. It has probably saved millions of people countless hours in document preparation and editing. Many of you are familiar with Word's Find or Find and Replace feature. For more on Word fields in general, see my: Word Fields Technical Reviewīefore getting to the specific field macros, I think it is important to review a few technical issues (or perhaps quirks) associated with using VBA procedures in general and using them with the field collection in particular. They are a semi-advanced Word feature and with the exception of VBA, I think that they are the most powerful and useful feature in the application. The purpose of this Microsoft Word Tips & Microsoft Word Help page is to publish a collection of VBA procedures (macros) useful for working with the Word field collection.

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