Looking for a Word macro for removing ruby text (Microsoft Word 2013)

[Jerry Pietrzak]

My Japanese source document is a Microsoft Word file. I am working in Microsoft Word 2013 running in Windows 7.

The source file has ruby text inserted for all the kanji/kanji compounds in the document. I need to remove the ruby text, but the manual method is less than ideal since it can only remove the ruby text from at most a few lines at a time.

Does anyone have a macro that can remove ruby text from an entire document, or from a larger selected block of text? I tried searching the archives but did not find anything.

Thanks in advance,

Jerry Pietrzak

Beppu, Oita

[Masako Sato]

Google で探してみました。

http://oshiete.goo.ne.jp/qa/8612848.html

[検索する文字列]：　EQ *,(*)\)
[検索後の文字列]：　EQ \1
で [すべて置換(A)]してフィールドコードを非表示にすると、ルビは解除されているはずです。

でも、フィールドコードは削除できません。残ったままです。
これも削除したい場合は、コピーしてテキスト形式で貼り付けるほかにないと思います。

Masako Sato

[Rene]

If it is only one file, what about a simple search/replace operation? Define format as Ruby and enter no text.

Rene von Rentzell

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[Jerry Pietrzak]

Thanks to Rene and Sato-san for the suggestions. I'll give both of these a try and report back next week with my results. I tried creating a macro on my own, but it's been too long since I've made a macro. I may need to give it another try.

At this point I only have a few pages, but this job will include several files and many pages, so I want to get something figured out before the rest of the job hits.

Jerry Pietrzak

[Jerry Pietrzak]

I tried the various suggestions out this morning and have something that is not perfect, but it is a start.
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The suggestion that Sato-san found was the only one that seemed to do the trick. It's a few extra steps, but it seems to work. Simplified, the steps are:

1. Set Word to show field codes (Alt-F9).

2. Search replace using wildcards to remove the content of the ruby fields.

3. Hide field codes (Alt-F9 once more).

4. Copy the text and paste without formatting to remove the (now empty) ruby fields.

The last step is a bit of a hassle, but it seems to be better than using the "clear readings" option, which is what someone else suggested. That's what I was doing before, but the "clear readings" option only clears the ruby text from about two lines at a time. While this is the cleanest approach, I anticipate seeing at least a hundred pages in this job, so I was trying to avoid this method.

Again, thanks to everyone for their suggestions. If I come up with anything better, I'll update this thread.

Jerry Pietrzak
Beppu, Oita

[Edward Lipsett /t]

I used to fiddle with all this stuff and haven’t for a thankfully long time, but I suspect if you save the whole thing as Word XML you can then do a smart search&replace and delete them all in one fell swoop. 

Edward Lipsett