Hello all.

I have a macro in which I save the document creating the filename based
on selected text in the document. However in some cases, the selected
text looks like "995451/U." Obviously I cannot save using this name. I
would like to convert this to "995451-U" for saving purposes only but
NOT in the document. How can I do this?

Thanks,

KS

if the format is always the same (six numbers, slash, letter) you could
use

Dim MyFileName as Variant
Dim SelectedText as Variant

SelectedText = 'wherever that cell/text is

MyFileName = Left(SelectedText, 6) & "-" & Right(SelectedText, 1)

ActiveDocument.SaveAs: MyFileName

this is not tested & may contain errors (i'm no guru!)
but the concept should work.
susan

Thanks, that worked just fine. I have a brain cloud today & cound't
think of a way to do it.

Thanks again.

KS


Susan wrote:
if the format is always the same (six numbers, slash, letter) you could
use

Dim MyFileName as Variant
Dim SelectedText as Variant

SelectedText = 'wherever that cell/text is

MyFileName = Left(SelectedText, 6) & "-" & Right(SelectedText, 1)

ActiveDocument.SaveAs: MyFileName

this is not tested & may contain errors (i'm no guru!)
but the concept should work.
susan

one way
Sub test()
Dim mystring As String, newstring As String
mystring = "995451/U"
newstring = Replace(mystring, "/", "-", 1)
MsgBox newstring
End Sub

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Gary


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Hello all.

I have a macro in which I save the document creating the filename based
on selected text in the document. However in some cases, the selected
text looks like "995451/U." Obviously I cannot save using this name. I
would like to convert this to "995451-U" for saving purposes only but
NOT in the document. How can I do this?

Thanks,

KS