Comments on: Excel VBE Multiline Search And Replace http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/ Daily posts of Excel tips…and other stuff Thu, 09 Feb 2012 23:42:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Dick Kusleika http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-67896 Dick Kusleika Wed, 09 Nov 2011 01:09:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-67896 <p>David: Under the Tools menu, choose Multiline VBA F&R</p> David: Under the Tools menu, choose Multiline VBA F&R

]]> By: David P. Ellis http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-67735 David P. Ellis Sat, 05 Nov 2011 14:31:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-67735 <p>This utility sounds really great. However, I feel somewhat ... shall we say mentally deficient. I've been programming in the VBA for Excel environment for quite a number of years, have installed various add ins to Excel and such, but I cannot find out how to activate the new search and replace feature.</p> <p>I saw in an earlier post where you used to use (ctrl-shift-f), but that does not work and I cannot find anywhere in your download page nor in the zip file any instructions on how to activate this feature.</p> This utility sounds really great. However, I feel somewhat … shall we say mentally deficient. I’ve been programming in the VBA for Excel environment for quite a number of years, have installed various add ins to Excel and such, but I cannot find out how to activate the new search and replace feature.

I saw in an earlier post where you used to use (ctrl-shift-f), but that does not work and I cannot find anywhere in your download page nor in the zip file any instructions on how to activate this feature.

]]> By: Mir http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-31393 Mir Thu, 20 Mar 2008 17:15:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-31393 <p>A real time saver, and a very well written piece of software, remembers all data between consecutive runs, and it even supports line-by-line Undoing! Some bells and whistles such as 'Current Function/Sub', 'Replace All', a 'Replace' button on the 'Find' dialog box, wildcard support, and my contrived wish of 'Replace This String with Function/Sub Name', which I would use for replacing a fixed string such as "ThisMethodNameToBeChanged" as in: </p> <p>Const method_name As String = "ThisMethodNameToBeChanged"</p> <p>with function names, i.e. with the first word found after the latest occurence of the phrase "Function " or "Sub " (case sensitive), but save these features for the commercial version ;) Anyway, a big thanks to the author!</p> A real time saver, and a very well written piece of software, remembers all data between consecutive runs, and it even supports line-by-line Undoing! Some bells and whistles such as ‘Current Function/Sub’, ‘Replace All’, a ‘Replace’ button on the ‘Find’ dialog box, wildcard support, and my contrived wish of ‘Replace This String with Function/Sub Name’, which I would use for replacing a fixed string such as “ThisMethodNameToBeChanged” as in:

Const method_name As String = “ThisMethodNameToBeChanged”

with function names, i.e. with the first word found after the latest occurence of the phrase “Function ” or “Sub ” (case sensitive), but save these features for the commercial version ;) Anyway, a big thanks to the author!

]]> By: jkpieterse http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23032 jkpieterse Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:29:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23032 <p>Doug: I'll have a look. The hiding of Excel is "by design", it is a quick way to ensure the userform does not take you to the Excel window instead of showing it on top of the VBE. I figured that to be allowed, since you're in the VBE anyway and ther eis no UI that can start it from excel.</p> <p>fzz: I don't thing the VBE is that bad. The hassle of copying into another app and pasting back is simply too much for me. Anyway, writing this was just fun.</p> Doug: I’ll have a look. The hiding of Excel is “by design”, it is a quick way to ensure the userform does not take you to the Excel window instead of showing it on top of the VBE. I figured that to be allowed, since you’re in the VBE anyway and ther eis no UI that can start it from excel.

fzz: I don’t thing the VBE is that bad. The hassle of copying into another app and pasting back is simply too much for me. Anyway, writing this was just fun.

]]> By: Doug Glancy http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23023 Doug Glancy Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:46:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23023 <p>Jan Karel,</p> <p>I am not able to use it. Some of the things I'm seeing:<br> - If I click back into the VBE with your utility open and then open it again, I then have two instances open. If I try to close one they both close. If I then try to reopen, there are two instances.<br> - Opening your utility hides Excel (only the VBE is visible in the taskbar)<br> - If I pick parts of 2 consecutive lines, i.e., the end of the first and begin of the second, it shows the whole first line in the utility and none of the second</p> Jan Karel,

I am not able to use it. Some of the things I’m seeing:
- If I click back into the VBE with your utility open and then open it again, I then have two instances open. If I try to close one they both close. If I then try to reopen, there are two instances.
- Opening your utility hides Excel (only the VBE is visible in the taskbar)
- If I pick parts of 2 consecutive lines, i.e., the end of the first and begin of the second, it shows the whole first line in the utility and none of the second

]]> By: fzz http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23021 fzz Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:56:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23021 <p>Lipstick on a warthog.</p> <p>That a thing CAN be done doesn't make it a good idea. VBE is a handy debugging environment, but it's not a particularly good editor. Myself, if I need to do thorough editing of VBA code, I write it to text files, use a more capable editor, then read it back into the .xls/.xla file. Even for ad hoc tweaks, it seems easier to copy text from VBE (leaving it selected), paste into a more capable editor, make the changes there, copy the result, paste into VBE replacing the selected (and now modified) text. This gets me regular expressions as well as multiline pattern support. And I could automate it using AutoIt if I weren't so lazy.</p> Lipstick on a warthog.

That a thing CAN be done doesn’t make it a good idea. VBE is a handy debugging environment, but it’s not a particularly good editor. Myself, if I need to do thorough editing of VBA code, I write it to text files, use a more capable editor, then read it back into the .xls/.xla file. Even for ad hoc tweaks, it seems easier to copy text from VBE (leaving it selected), paste into a more capable editor, make the changes there, copy the result, paste into VBE replacing the selected (and now modified) text. This gets me regular expressions as well as multiline pattern support. And I could automate it using AutoIt if I weren’t so lazy.

]]> By: Matt Vidas http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23015 Matt Vidas Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:35:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23015 <p>I think it was me that was being greylisted, based on the contents of the link given in the email (I'll mask your address):</p> <p>Message is waiting at win4.fastbighost.com for delivery to mail3.longhead.com.<br> Message delivery has been delayed to the following recipients:<br> Recipient: [SMTP:info@yourdomain.com]<br> Reason: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 450 : Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds (see <a href="http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help/jkp-ads.com.html" rel="nofollow">http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help/jkp-ads.com.html</a>)</p> <p>Clicking on that link takes you to <a href="http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/jkp-ads.com.html" rel="nofollow">http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/jkp-ads.com.html</a> which says "If you see this error message while sending a mail, it probably means that you did something wrong"</p> <p>My email just had some code changes to get around the down-arrow key thing, and the protected project. Both are things I know you can do just fine, so my email was unnecessary :) Was just trying to help you out.</p> I think it was me that was being greylisted, based on the contents of the link given in the email (I’ll mask your address):

Message is waiting at win4.fastbighost.com for delivery to mail3.longhead.com.
Message delivery has been delayed to the following recipients:
Recipient: [SMTP:info@yourdomain.com]
Reason: Remote SMTP Server Returned: 450 : Recipient address rejected: Greylisted for 300 seconds (see http://isg.ee.ethz.ch/tools/postgrey/help/jkp-ads.com.html)

Clicking on that link takes you to http://postgrey.schweikert.ch/help/jkp-ads.com.html which says “If you see this error message while sending a mail, it probably means that you did something wrong”

My email just had some code changes to get around the down-arrow key thing, and the protected project. Both are things I know you can do just fine, so my email was unnecessary :) Was just trying to help you out.

]]> By: jkpieterse http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23014 jkpieterse Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:30:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23014 <p>Who was being grey listed, me or you?</p> <p>Anyway, I've updated the download. No more disappearing Excel .</p> Who was being grey listed, me or you?

Anyway, I’ve updated the download. No more disappearing Excel .

]]> By: Matt Vidas http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23013 Matt Vidas Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:16:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23013 <p>I sent you an email a little while ago (info@) with some code fixes, but got a message delivery delay notice about being gray listed. Let me know if you didn't get it, I can try sending from a different address</p> I sent you an email a little while ago (info@) with some code fixes, but got a message delivery delay notice about being gray listed. Let me know if you didn’t get it, I can try sending from a different address

]]> By: jkpieterse http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/archives/2007/04/12/excel-vbe-multiline-search-and-replace/#comment-23012 jkpieterse Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:00:00 +0000 http://www.dailydoseofexcel.com/?p=1643#comment-23012 <p>Thanks Matt, those are useful comments indeed.<br> I need to work on the error handling, that's for sure.</p> Thanks Matt, those are useful comments indeed.
I need to work on the error handling, that’s for sure.

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