How to find and highlight duplicate paragraphs in Word document?
Supposing, you have a large Word document which may have hundreds of pages, now, you want to check if there are duplicate paragraphs and then highlight to make them outstanding, so that you can deal with the duplicate sentences. How could you find and highlight the duplicate paragraphs quickly and easily in Word document?
Find and highlight the duplicate paragraphs in Word document with VBA code
Find and highlight the duplicate paragraphs in Word document with VBA code
To find and highlight the duplicate paragraphs in a Word document, the following VBA code can do you a favor, please do as this:
1. Hold down the ALT + F11 keys to open the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications window.
2. And then, click Insert > Module, copy and paste below code into the opened blank module:
VBA code: Find and highlight the duplicate paragraphs in Word document:
Sub highlightdup()
Dim I, J As Long
Dim xRngFind, xRng As Range
Dim xStrFind, xStr As String
Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument
For I = 1 To .Paragraphs.Count - 1
Set xRngFind = .Paragraphs(I).Range
If xRngFind.HighlightColorIndex <> wdYellow Then
For J = I + 1 To .Paragraphs.Count
Set xRng = .Paragraphs(J).Range
If xRngFind.Text = xRng.Text Then
xRngFind.HighlightColorIndex = wdBrightGreen
xRng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
End If
Next
End If
Next
End With
End Sub
3. And then press F5 key to run this code, all the duplicate sentences are highlighted at once, the first displayed duplicate paragraphs are highlighted with green color, and other duplicates are highlighted with yellow color, see screenshot:
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