[WORD2007] Is this possible and if so how?

[Domisoft]

Hi I am just starting to use VBA in Word

PROBLEM: I have a load of tags like [p.345] but now I want to add a page in and increment the hard coded page numbers by 1.

I know how to input the number and presume I could get for loop to start at 2000 and presumably work backwards, but am unsure how to change data..

Is this possible and if so any sample code would be greatly appreciated

[westconn1]

are these page numbers? if so why are you not using pagenumber fields?

[Domisoft]

are these page numbers?

YES

why are you not using pagenumber fields?

Because I dont know how to "Convert" them from [p.??] to what you said, the source document is utf-8 text with zero formatting, have a macro that does most of the formatting, so if theres an easy way please help if you are willing

[incidentals]

page numbering should be left to word!

nuff said!

here to grump!

[dmaruca]

Hey don't be too hard on the guy. I used to have pages in large documents like this when I worked for insurance companies. Pages in these documents become their own entities and repagination would cause chaos. What we always did to add a page in those situations would be to add page 3A or something.

Word doesn't have a page object you can loop. What you could do is to loop through paragraphs and check for your page pattern... Forgive me I'm typing from memory and this is pseudocode.

Sub LoopParagraphs
    Dim p as Paragraph

    For each p in Activedocument.Paragraphs
        If p.Range.Text Like "my pattern" Then
            'Increment text in here
        End If
    Next
End Sub

Sorry I can't be more specific right now not enough time.

[westconn1]

as it is just text you could use a loop to replace each page number with +1

for i = lastpage to insrt step -1
   ' record a macro to find "[p." & i & "]" and replace with "[p. & i + 1 & "]" 
next

where insrt is the page number position of the inserted page and lastpage speaks for itself

[Domisoft]

Thanks all for the pointers..