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Remove a specified number of characters from the right or left side of text

I know that in Excel you can remove a specified number of characters from the right or left side of text.  Can you do that in Word as well?  Basically, I'm editing a document that someone's manually numbered paragraphs.  Instead of manually going through them and deleting them, I'm wondering if there's a way of highlighting the paragraphs I'd like to edit and removing the first 4 characters (the two numbers, the period, and the tab) so I can then number them using the numbering tool. 

 

Is there a way? 

 

Thanks,

Dax  

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Sub ScratchMacro()
'A basic Word macro coded by Greg Maxey
Dim oRng As Word.Range
Dim oPar As Paragraph
For Each oPar In ActiveDocument.Range.Paragraphs
  Set oRng = oPar.Range
  oRng.Collapse wdCollapseStart
    Do While oRng.Characters.Last Like "[1-9.^t]"
      oRng.MoveEnd wdCharacter, 1
    Loop
    If Len(oRng) > 1 Then oRng.Delete
Next oPar
End Sub
Greg Maxey
***
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http://gregmaxey.com/word_tips.html

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Last updated October 5, 2021 Views 893 Applies to: