I've a word document with some text. At some paragraphs I've words that I want to add the hyperlink to. Here's an example:
The book "When the sun goes up", ABC-1212321-DEF, have been released today.......
The "ABC-1212321-DEF" should be found and apply a hyperlink as follows: http://google.com/ABC-sometext-1212321-anothertext-DEF
All the strings in the document starts with "ABC-" and ends with "-DEF".
Thanks in advanced.
EDIT:
This is what I've got this far:
Sub InsertLinks()
Dim r As Range
Dim SearchString As String
Set r = ActiveDocument.Range
SearchString = "ABC-"
With r.Find
.MatchWildcards = True
Do While .Execute(findText:=SearchString, Forward:=True) = True
ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=r, _
Address:=Replace(r.Text, " ", ""), _
SubAddress:="", ScreenTip:="", TextToDisplay:=r.Text
With r
.End = r.Hyperlinks(1).Range.End
.Collapse 0
End With
Loop
End With
End Sub
This now detects ABC- and add some random link. But need to get the number between ABC- and -DEF. The length is not the same.
SOLUTION
This is the code that solved my problem:
Sub InsertLinksTB()
Dim Rng As Range
Dim SearchString As String
Dim EndString As String
Dim Id As String
Dim Link As String
Set Rng = ActiveDocument.Range
SearchString = "ABC-"
EndString = "-DEF"
With Rng.Find
.MatchWildcards = True
Do While .Execute(findText:=SearchString, Forward:=False) = True
Rng.MoveStartUntil ("ABC-")
Rng.MoveEndUntil (" ")
'MsgBox (Rng.Text)
Id = Split(Split(Rng.Text, "ABC-")(1), "-DEF")(0)
'MsgBox (Id)
Link = "http://google.com/" & Id
ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=Rng, _
Address:=Link, _
SubAddress:="", ScreenTip:="", TextToDisplay:=Rng.Text
Rng.Collapse wdCollapseStart
Loop
End With
End Sub
So if the text "ABC-1234-DEF" is found in the text, it will hyperlink this text with http://google.com/1234
Hope this is helpful for someone.