Sub MatchSingleQuotes() ' Paul Beverley - Version 22.03.24 ' Check whether single quotes match up Dim myList As String myList = "'s,s','t,'v,'r,'l,'m,'d,'y,'c,'n,'o" ' UK list ' myList = "'i,'k,'m,'n,'s,'t,'r,'n" ' Dutch list myColour = wdYellow myTrack = ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = False oldColour = Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = myColour myList = myList & "," & Replace(myList, "'", ChrW(8217)) myCode = Split(myList, ",") numCodes = UBound(myCode) useExplorer = False For Each myPara In ActiveDocument.Paragraphs myText = LCase(myPara.Range.Text) 'Strip out all the apostrophe-s and s-apostrophe For i = 0 To numCodes myText = Replace(myText, myCode(i), "") Next i L = Len(myText) qts = L - Len(Replace(myText, Chr(39), "")) opens = L - Len(Replace(myText, ChrW(8216), "")) closes = L - Len(Replace(myText, ChrW(8217), "")) If qts Mod 2 <> 0 Or opens <> closes Then myPara.Range.Font.Underline = True myCount = myCount + 1 StatusBar = "Found: " & myCount DoEvents End If Next StatusBar = "" If myCount = 0 Then MsgBox ("All clear!") Else MsgBox ("Number of suspect paragraphs: " & Trim(myCount)) End If Set rng = ActiveDocument.Content With rng.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Text = "s'" .Font.Underline = True .Wrap = wdFindContinue .Forward = True .Replacement.Font.StrikeThrough = True .Replacement.Highlight = True .MatchWildcards = False .Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll DoEvents End With Set rng = ActiveDocument.Content With rng.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Text = "" .Font.Underline = True .Wrap = wdFindStop .Forward = True .MatchWildcards = False .Execute DoEvents End With Do While rng.Find.Found = True If rng.Font.StrikeThrough <> 9999999 Then rng.HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow End If rng.Font.StrikeThrough = False rng.Collapse wdCollapseEnd rng.Find.Execute DoEvents Loop Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory With Selection.Find .ClearFormatting .Replacement.ClearFormatting .Text = "" .Font.Underline = True .Replacement.Text = "" .Execute End With Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart Selection.MoveLeft , 1 Selection.MoveRight , 1 ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = myTrack Options.DefaultHighlightColorIndex = oldColour ActiveDocument.TrackRevisions = myTrack End Sub