Change font color for certain text in MS Word

Question

I have very little VBA experience and a have a large document that contains the text similar to below:

"(+12.3%) which translates to (-$78.9M)"

Kind of similar to this question I want to change text that follows the symbol "+" or "-" to green and red respectively, while keeping text black.

Is it possible for a VBA code that can automatically do this?

Answer 1

You can do that with two wildcard Find/Replace operations, without recourse to a macro, using:

Find = +[0-9.%$M]{1,}
Replace = ^&

with the replacement font colour set to green, and

Find = \-[0-9.%$M]{1,}
Replace = ^&

with the replacement font colour set to red. You could, of course, use the macro recorder to create a single macro containing both operations.