title: Feasibility of using macros/VBA for my formatting needs in Word? (Dates, currencies, styles)
body: <p>I’ve had some success finding existing code for some of my current needs but I was wondering whether/how I can use VBA to do the following in Microsoft Word as I currently spend a lot of time on formatting. I’m not sure whether some of these are even possible under VBA, so I would really appreciate an indication of their feasibility before I spend even more time than I already have looking into this. Thank you so much!</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>Change dates to my desired format.
  e.g  24/9/2019, 24 September 2019, 24 Sep 2019, Tuesday (24 Sep) ——> 24 Sep 19</p></li>
  <li><p>Change currencies.
  e.g. £2 billion to GBP2bn, 179 billion euros to EUR179bn, US$70 million to USD70mn</p></li>
  <li><p>Change “last week”, “this week”, “next week” to “the week ending d mmm yy”.
  e.g. last week ——> the week ending 1 Sep 19</p></li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>I understand that all of the edits above, if made using a macro, would be prone to a lot of error. My plan is to track changes before I use the macro so I can still accept or reject each change. I'm also unsure about how feasible changing the weeks are - can I use dates in real-time?</p>
  
  <ol start="4">
  <li>Format my paragraphs to fit a style quickly
  Let’s say my work takes the structure of:</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p><strong>Style 1</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>Style 2</em></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Body (Style 3)</p></li>
  <li><p>Body (Style 3)</p></li>
  <li><p>Body (Style 3)</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><strong>Style 1</strong></p>
  
  <p><em>Style 2</em></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li><p>Body (Style 3)</p></li>
  <li><p>Body (Style 3)</p></li>
  <li><p>Body (Style 3)</p></li>
  </ul>
  
  <p>so on and so forth. 
  The paragraphs in Style 1s are all correctly formatted to begin with, but what I have to do now is format the Style 2s and Style 3s. Could a Macro somehow detect that my Style 2 paragraphs are always below a Style 1 paragraph, and format it for me? And likewise for how my Style 3 paragraphs are always below a Style 2/another Style 3 paragraph.</p>