Searching for text and formatting it

[timeel39]

Hey! I am asking if there was a way (I'm sure there is) for my code to search through my document for a certain string, proceed to select the entire line that text is in, and then format it. And, of course, continue searching for any other instances of the text. Thanks in advance!

[macropod]

Hi timeel,

Are these 'lines' whole paragraphs, or at least terminated by manual line breaks? If so, a wildcard Find/Replace would probably do the job.

[timeel39]

They're terminated by manual line breaks. How would a wildcard find/replace work? I know VBA from Excel, so I'm not too savvy on certain Word functions.

[macropod]

Hi timeel,

For a wildcard Find/Replace, you could use:
Find = [!^l^13]@text to find*[^l^13]
Replace = ^&
and set the replacement formatting to whatever you want.

[timeel39]

Thanks!