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    Guest replied
    Re: sadly neither am I

    An easier solution:

    Dim myArray, a, b, c

    myArray = vba.split(myString, " ")

    a = "first word is " & myArray(0)
    b = "second word is " & myArray(1)
    c = "third word is " & myArray(2)

    Look up help for further info.

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    Guest replied
    sadly neither am I

    but google is a wonderful thing.

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    Guest replied
    ta

    cheers guys. Not really a vb man so that helped.

    Alex

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    Guest replied
    Use Instr

    Use Instr to find the word country

    a=instr(string,"country",1)

    Then use instr to find the first space after it

    b=instr(a,string," ",1)

    Then simply grab the middle bit of text you have found

    wanted=mid(string,a,b-a)

    simple really.

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    Guest replied
    easy in excel,
    export to txt file then reimport setting the delimter to space
    should drop the countries into single column.
    or
    use a combination of seek / mid / length commands

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    VBScript Question

    I'm trying to extract some text using VBScript in MS Word 97. Can anyone help with the following?

    Aim to extract the complete words with country in them and copy to the bottom of the page. e.g.

    england country1 london
    wales country2 cardiff
    scotland country3 edinburgh

    The script will just extract (copy and paste) the following at the bottom of the page:

    country1
    country2
    country3

    I can get the thing to find anything with 'country' and paste, but not the complete word (i.e. country1, country2). The text is seperated by blank spaces only.

    Any ideas anyone?

    cheers

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