Inserting Characters (Word XP)

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I know very little about VBA objects in Word. I couldn’t even get the macro record to do this. What I am trying to do is select text and then run a macro that will insert the character { at the beginning of the selected text and the character } at the end of the selected text. That text could be over several paragraphs. How would I code this? I’m sure this is probably easy but until I learn Word VBA objects it will take me a very long time. Thanks.

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I have an old sample macro in post 500,069. It finds bold text and surrounds it with HTML tags. The main methods used is for this are:

Selection.InsertBefore ""
Selection.InsertAfter ""

I’m sure there are other ways, but this one is pretty straightforward.

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Hi Jefferson. Thanks for replying. I used the code you provided and, of course, it worked. I knew it had to be easy to do and now I will know how next time. Thanks for your help!

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