Date change in Word document

twckfa16

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Hello -

I am trying find date occurrences in a Word document from Excel. The format of the date is 'ddmmmyy'.
(Example: 17SEP18). I want to be able to replace with the current date.

This is what I have so far (probably much simpler than this)

Code:
Dim regexp As New RegExp
Dim prevdate As String
Dim pattern As String
pattern = "(^[0-9]{2})([A-Z]{3})([0-9]{2})"

With ActiveDocument.Content
     With regexp 
           .Global = True
           .IgnoreCase = False
           .pattern = pattern
           .Replace

That's all I have so far. Have tried different things with no luck.

Thanks!
 

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Try:
Code:
Sub Demo()
Application.ScreenUpdating = False
With ActiveDocument.Range
  With .Find
    .ClearFormatting
    .Replacement.ClearFormatting
    .Text = "<[0-9]{2}[A-Za-z]{3}[0-9]{2}>"
    .Replacement.Text = UCase(Format(Now(), "DDMMMYY"))
    .Forward = True
    .Wrap = wdFindContinue
    .Format = False
    .MatchWildcards = True
    .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
  End With
End With
Application.ScreenUpdating = True
End Sub
 
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