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Working with Selected text in MS Word 2008 find/Replace
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  • Subject: Working with Selected text in MS Word 2008 find/Replace
  • From: jscriven <email@hidden>
  • Date: Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:45:46 -0500
  • Acceptlanguage: en-US
  • Thread-topic: Working with Selected text in MS Word 2008 find/Replace

I am trying to convert an old Word 2004 macro into Applescript.  It
basically takes whatever text the user has highlighted/selected and replaces
all of the characters with their phoenetic Russian equivalents.  I have the
basic find and replace part working, but it affects the whole document.  I
would like to set the range to only include the selected text in the
original document.  In the original macro, I copied the text block to a new
document, ran the replacements on the whole new document, and copied the new
text block back to the original.  In applescript it looks like I might be
able to set the selected text as my range, but I don't understand the
syntax.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Here is what I have so far.
Obviously, there are many more replacements in the real one.
Thanks in advance, Julie Scriven

tell application "Microsoft Word"

    activate

    set docRange to text object of active document

    execute find (find object of docRange) find text "g" replace with "г"
replace replace all with match case

    execute find (find object of docRange) find text "f" replace with "ф"
replace replace all with match case

    execute find (find object of docRange) find text "h" replace with "ч"
replace replace all with match case

end tell


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