Automatic-Subscript in Word

[orangepeel]

When it comes to writing chemical formulae, it is such a drag having to highlight each individual number and press the subscript button. It is not so bad for the occasional H2O, but for something like [(C4H9)4N]2Mo8O26 this task becomes a real pain! A program called ChemDraw has a button which, when selected, causes all highlighted numbers (and not highlighted letters) to be automatically made into subscript. Such a button would make my relationship with Word a great deal sweeter. Could this be achieved with a macro? Has anyone written the code, or found an alternative solution?

Many thanks.

 

[scrupul0us]

This has already been discussed on this board once, use the search feature

 

[orangepeel]

Search hasn't thrown up anything of much use. Certainly, the word 'Subscript' only throws up this thread when I limit the search to this board. Could it have been the following thread that you were thinking of?:

http://www.mrexcel.com/board2/viewtopic.php?t=87149&highlight=subscript+word+macro

If anyone has any more success than me in finding the relevent string, then I'd be glad to hear about it. Otherwise, any further help would be much appreciated. I am sure it would be a simple macro to write, if you knew how.

 

[starl]

try this incredibly long link:

http://groups-beta.google.com/group..._doneTitle=Back+to+Search&&d#f0a0ac9075d9c29e

 

[orangepeel]

Ooh! That looks like just what I was looking for. Thanks!

 

[orangepeel]

I also found this macro:

http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Thebes/5118/download.htm

It is pretty exhaustive in what it does for you. Unfortunately, I can't get it to work. Perhaps becuase I run Office X on a mac. Still, the debugger stalls with the following message on the very first line of code:

Compile error: 'Type-declaration character does not match declared data type.'

I don't think that is a windows/mac compatibility issue. Has anyone else used this macro successfully? I just wish I knew enough code to fix it.

 

[starl]

Macs.. I charge extra for mac issues

can you post the line ? I rather not install it....