Hello everyone,
I recently made a macro which would search for specific keywords in a
list of Microsoft word files and find the number of occurance of the
particular keyword. The problem is that everytime this macro opens a
new word file, it takes a lot of time. I am new to object oriented
programming. If anybody has any ideas of making this macro faster,
please suggest. Thank you.

A core part of the macro is as given below.

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For Each nDocFile In Range("B4:B" & FindLastRow("B4")).Cells
sDoc = Range("B1").Value & "\" & nDocFile.Value
Set wordApp = CreateObject("Word.Application")
nDocFile.Select
wordApp.Documents.Open (sDoc)
wordApp.Visible = False

For Each nWord In Range(Cells(3, 4), Cells(3, UBound(aKeywords) +
3)).Cells
sText = nWord

With wordApp.Selection.Find
.MatchWholeWord = True
Counter = 0
Do While .Execute(FindText:=sText, Forward:=True) =
True
Counter = Counter + 1
Loop
End With

nDocFile.Offset(0, nWord.Column - 2).Value = Counter

Next

wordApp.Quit
Set wordApp = Nothing

Next