Microsoft word macro

[McWricheous]

I'm trying to figure out how to do the following:
I need to write a Microsoft word macro in Visual Basic which will search through a document and every time it finds a certain word it replaces it with a picture. The picture that it needs to replace it with is determined by a text file. I figured the best way to do this would be to open the text file as an input file and create a hash table. The text file is set up basically like this exept its much larger.
A pic1
b pic2
c pic3

I have the search function which finds the word inside the word document figured out, the problem that I'm having is with reading in the file that contains the key and value and creating the hash table and getting the value out of it. I've tried looking for some code examples that will help and am having trouble finding any. Any help is much appreciated.

[McWricheous]

Figured that I'd put up what I have so far. I haven't coded in visual basic in about 8 years, and I don't ever remember writing macros in microsoft word so I'm not sure how to do everythign I want to and am having trouble finding anything that helps figure everything out. This is what I have so far...


Dim number As Integer
Dim signatures As String
Dim employee_signature_bmp As String
Dim employee_find As String
Dim case_name As String
Set employee_signatures = CreateObject("scripting.dictionary")
number = 1

With Selection.Find
.Text = "zqx"
.Replacement.Text = " "
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = False
.MatchCase = False
.MatchWholeWord = False
.MatchAllWordForms = False
.MatchSoundsLike = False
.MatchWildcards = True
End With

Open "C:\WINDOWS\Desktop\ERIC'S\employeeSignatures.txt" For Input As number
Do While Not EOF(number)
Line Input #number, signatures$
y = Len(signatures)
case_name = Trim(Mid(signatures, 1, 5))
signature_to_add = Trim(Mid(signatures, 9, y))
employee_signatures.Add case_name, signature_to_add
Loop
Close #number
Close number

Do While Selection.Find.Execute() = True
Selection.EndKey unit = wdLine, Extend:=wdExtend
case_name = Trim(Mid(Selection.Text, 4, 5))
If employee_signatures.Exists(case_name) = True Then
employee_signature_bmp = employee_signature.Item(case_name)
employee_signature_bmp = ("C:\windows\desktop\eric's\") + employee_signature_bmp
Selection.InlineShapes.AddPicture FileName = employee_signature_bmp, linktofile = False, savewithdocument:=True
Else
Selection.EndKey unit = wdLine, Extend:=wdMove
Selection.Delete unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
Selection.Delete unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
Selection.Delete unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1
End If
Loop
Selection.HomeKey unit:=wdStory
End Sub

any help is much appreciated

[McWricheous]

I figured it out...sorry for all the posts