WD2000: Out-of-Memory Error Message When You Use Macro That Edits Document (279677)

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For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: To prevent this error message, add a Save method to your macro, so that the document is saved periodically.

When you use a macro to search for and replace text in a document, the Save method is often needed after a number of replacements have been made. The Save method clears the Word edit buffer, so that the macro can continue making edits.

The following is a sample macro that replaces all semicolons with tabs in a document. The If statement and count variable are used to save the document after every 30 replacements.

Sub UpdateCount()

Dim count As Integer

count = 0

Options.AllowFastSave = False
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory
Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
Selection.Find.Execute findtext:=";", Forward:=True

While Selection.Find.Found = True
   count = count + 1
   Selection.TypeText Text:=vbTab

   If count = 30 Then
      ActiveDocument.Save
      count = 0
   End If

   Selection.Find.Execute
Wend

End Sub