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Well, I've wasted enough time on this myself so I thought I would reach out for help. I'm sure the solution is simple; I'm just overlooking it. 

I want to search through a group of PowerPoint music slides and copy out certain song numbers and verses with their corresponding chorus. The verse number can vary (for example song number 500 verses 1 and 3).  Verses may take up more than a single slide and choruses follow the verses and may take up more than a single slide. I have the search working... it finds the slide number... then finds the verses but I only want to copy the chorus for the selected verses. My code currently grabbing all the chorus slides, which I don't want. I can't seem to figure this part out. 

So, here is an example.

Slide set: 

  • Verse 1
  • Verse 1
  • Chorus
  • Chorus
  • Verse 2
  • Verse 2
  • Chorus
  • Chorus 
  • Verse 3
  • Verse 3
  • Chorus
  • Chorus

So, if I search for verses 1 and 3, I want this to be my results. (Verse 2 slides are their chorus are skipped)

  • Verse 1
  • Verse 1
  • Chorus
  • Chorus
  • Verse 3
  • Verse 3
  • Chorus
  • Chorus

I'm looking for a strategy or algorithm for doing this type of search. I hope this makes sense.

 

 

 

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If you restructure / relabel the slides, might make your problem easier to solve.

e.g. 

  • Verse 1
  • Verse 1
  • Chorus 1
  • Chorus 1
  • Verse 2
  • Verse 2
  • Chorus 2
  • Chorus 2
  • Verse 3
  • Verse 3
  • Chorus 3
  • Chorus 3
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Did you have a look at the PowerPoint UDF, function _PPT_TextFind?
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