Searching for text in Word table

[clairexh]

Dear all

I try to search for certain text in a specified cell of a Word table, then fill the found text into another cell in this table by click a button. My code:

Dim acTable As Table
Dim mystring(0 To 2) As String
Dim r As Integer
Dim i As Integer
Dim msg As String
Dim rng As Range

Set acTable = ThisDocument.Tables(2)

r = acTable.Rows.Count

mystring(0) = "Pilot"
mystring(1) = "ATCo"
mystring(2) = "Aircraft"


Set rng = acTable.Cell(r, 2).Range


For i = 0 To 6

With rng.Find

.Text = mystring(i)
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindStop
End With

rng.Find.Execute

If rng.Find.Found Then

msg = MsgBox("Add " & mystring(i), vbOKCancel)

If msg = vbOK Then

With acTable
.Cell(r, 4).Range.InsertAfter mystring(i)

End With
End If

End If

Next i


In the code, mystring(i) is predefined text which I want to find in a cell of Word table and fill them into other cells of this tabel.

So far, this code works ok if I only search once, or search one text or word in specified cell, however, some times, I need to search two different text or words in the cell, I have to set the Wrap property as

.Wrap=wdFindContinue

instead of .Wrap=wdFindStop

but this setting will search other part of the document as well, this is not what I want.

For example:

the cell content: The pilot requests pushback from the ATCo

the text I want to find from this content: pilot and ATCo

However, the text Aircraft is not in the cell but in other table of the Word document will be found, this is not what I want. I only want to search in a specified cell.

I appreciate any ideas and help

[WorkHorse]

When you Execute the Find method on a Range object, the Range object is set to the results of the Find. So rng is getting set everytime you do rng.Find.Execute. You can correct this by putting the line "Set rng = acTable.Cell(r, 2).Range" as the first line inside the For...Next loop so that rng gets reset to the cell every time. Or, you can use use With acTable.Cell(r, 2).Range and use wdFindContinue to keep searching that range (because there is no longer a Range object variable that would need to be reset).

Sub Test1()
    
    Dim acTable As Table
    Dim mystring(0 To 2) As String
    Dim r As Integer
    Dim i As Integer
    Dim msg As String
    Dim rng As Range
    
    Set acTable = ThisDocument.Tables(2)
    
    r = acTable.Rows.Count
    
    mystring(0) = "Pilot"
    mystring(1) = "ATCo"
    mystring(2) = "Aircraft"
    
    With acTable.Cell(r, 2).Range
    
        For i = 0 To 2
        
            With .Find
                .Text = mystring(i)
                .Forward = True
                .Wrap = wdFindContinue
                .Execute
            End With
        
            If .Find.Found Then
                
                msg = MsgBox("Add " & mystring(i), vbOKCancel)
                
                If msg = vbOK Then
                    acTable.Cell(r, 4).Range.InsertAfter mystring(i)
                End If
        
            End If
        
        Next i
 
    End With
 
End Sub