Lon

Using ME I have notepad open with a large text file. I am using the "find" command in Notepad to locate the specific phrase "Closing case" Everything good to here. What I need to be able to do is to capture the whole text line (has dates, path, etc) "closing case" resides on and save it to a variable. What I am having a problem with is the actual selection of the whole line of text. I don't know of any commands to get the whole line "blued" to copy it. I don't know of any shortcut keys to get the whole line. Any ideas?

You can also use the freeware file rename utility "Lupas Rename" http://www.azheavymetal.com/~lupasrename/lupasrename.php

Randall, Thanks for your time with the form I sent you. As you can see there were a lot of fields on the form, but only a few fields from each form repeat in other forms. All of the collected information will comes together in a regular word document upon completion of the filled forms. Your example gets me started and works pretty well. Thank You

Can anyone tell me if Macro Express can look through a Word (2003) document and locate a particular "FormText" (in this case known as "Text60) field or fields and copy their contents as variables? I have several documents that need common information shared between them (not always the same documents). The documents are already designed with the "formtext" fields. I am just looking for the possibilities of extracting information from certain fields I have filled out and having that information ready to paste into the next form when I open it and envoke the macro to populate the common fields, etc. There are too many check boxes and other field codes to use a "tab" method but the field code names are specific. I haven't found a successful way do deal with Word to export values out of a document to be later used for recall. Thanks for your ideas.

Wondering if someone might have a good example for me to look at. I am contemplating a macro to create a text document. In the creation of this document a certain amount of text would be written and I would like a pop up menu to ask the user for a choice of perhaps "A", "B", or "C". The macro would type the text based on the choice ("A" in this case) or prompt for user input then would arrive at a NEW pop up menu with choices "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", etc. If "B" had been chosen the next menu might pop up with choices "C1", "C2", "C3", etc. In essence the document is dynamically created based upon the menu choices and pauses for input. Thanks

Randall, Thanks for the find. I played with your macro before I checked back at the forum. I certainly don't understand all of the macro writing process but was interested in your first post. I looked at the second one you found and it can work like it is. It wants to find a certain text and replace. I'll have to figure out how to capture the folder name and apply it as the file name and add the series number to the end. This is a great start and thanks for sending the info my way. Lon

Thanks Randall. I can at least get started with your file. If you or anyone else have any other suggestions or thoughts I would appreciate it.

Hoping this isn’t too much to ask. I need some help with a macro to accomplish the following: I have several thousand photo files to rename to a more meaningful name. The pictures in the folder are now something like dsc05884.jpg, etc. The folder names have been renamed as desired to be more descriptive. I need to apply or copy the folder name to all of the jpg files within the folder and to append a series number to each file. I need it to continue through the current folder and stop. I would then manually move to the next folder and run the macro, etc I am a little nervous about turning something I might create, that it may not work appropriately and go beyond the current folder. I would appreciate some guidance or an example that I could work from to accomplish this.

Worked great - Thank you for the reply. I assume items like this are well explained in your book? Thanks again.

Being a newbie to macro express I am having some minor difficulty with a folder and subfolder creation. I want to have a macro to create a variable named folder (I would like this to pause for a name input but I haven't accomplished that task yet) followed by 5 static named folders. Seems pretty simple but can't seem to make it start from the relative location I have opened in explorer without having to name a drive letter in the macro. If I name the drive letter in the path it works ok. So in short; 1. How to make the folder macro work from the highlighted drive or folder? 2. How to pause for input of a folder name, create the folder, and add the 5 others underneath this?