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Sub CurlyQs()
'
' CurlyQs Macro
' Macro first recorded Thursday, September 11, 2003 by Mark L Ward Jr
' Refactored with regex by Duncan Johnson Sept 17, 2010
'
' Makes assorted typographical corrections
FindReplace " "," " 'double spaces with a single space
FindReplace """","""" 'straight double quote with smart quote (assumes Smart Quotes are enabled in Word settings)
FindReplace "'","'" 'straight single quote with smart quote (assumes Smart Quotes are enabled in Word settings)
FindReplace "--","—" 'double hyphen with em dash
FindReplace " — ","—" 'em dash with two spaces to no spaces
FindReplace " —","—" 'em dash with space before to no spaces
FindReplace "— ","—" 'em dash with space after to no spaces
FindReplace "([0-9])-([0-9])","\1–\2",True 'hyphens between numerals into en dashes
FindReplace "Saviour","Savior" 'Saviour > Savior
FindReplace "…’","…‘" ' fix apostrophe next to ellipsis
FindReplace "—”","—“" ' fix quote next to dash
'Substitute nonbreaking space between numeral and bookname of biblical books such as 1 Sam
FindReplace "([1-2]) Sam","\1^0160Sam",True
FindReplace "([1-2]) Kgs","\1^0160Kgs",True
FindReplace "([1-2]) Kings","\1^0160Kings",True
FindReplace "([1-2]) Cor","\1^0160Cor",True
FindReplace "([1-2]) Thess","\1^0160Thess",True
FindReplace "([1-2]) Tim","\1^0160Tim",True
FindReplace "([1-2]) Pet","\1^0160Pet",True
FindReplace "([1-3]) John","\1^0160John",True
FindReplace "([1-4]) Macc","\1^0160Macc",True
'ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory) = RegExpReplace(ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory), "(1|2|3|4) ((?:Sam)|(?:Kgs)|(?:Kings)|(?:Chr)|(?:Cor)|(?:Thes)|(?:Tim)|(?:Pet)|(?:John)|(?:Macc))", "$1" & Chr(160) & "$2")
'If ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count >= 1 Then 'do for footnotes
'ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdFootnotesStory) = RegExpReplace(ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdFootnotesStory), "(1|2|3|4) ((?:Sam)|(?:Kgs)|(?:Kings)|(?:Chr)|(?:Cor)|(?:Thes)|(?:Tim)|(?:Pet)|(?:John)|(?:Macc))", "$1" & Chr(160) & "$2")
'End If
End Sub
Private Sub FindReplace(findStr as String, repStr as String, Optional MatchWildCards as Boolean = False)
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Text = findStr
Selection.Find.Replacement.Text = repStr
Selection.Find.Forward = True
Selection.Find.Wrap = wdFindContinue
Selection.Find.MatchWildcards = MatchWildCards
Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
End Sub
Private Function RegExpReplace(LookIn As String, PatternStr As String, Optional ReplaceWith As String = "", _
Optional ReplaceAll As Boolean = True, Optional MatchCase As Boolean = True)
' This function uses Regular Expressions to parse a string, and replace parts of the string
' matching the specified pattern with another string. The optional argument ReplaceAll controls
' whether all instances of the matched string are replaced (True) or just the first instance (False)
' By default, RegExp is case-sensitive in pattern-matching. To keep this, omit MatchCase or
' set it to True
' If you use this function from Excel, you may substitute range references for all the arguments
Dim RegX As Object
Set RegX = CreateObject("VBScript.RegExp")
With RegX
.Pattern = PatternStr
.Global = ReplaceAll
.IgnoreCase = Not MatchCase
End With
RegExpReplace = RegX.Replace(LookIn, ReplaceWith)
Set RegX = Nothing
End Function
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