<![CDATA[Macro to Replace Whole Word]]>Hi, I recorded a macro using Find and Replace to remove a whole word, (the word “um”) but when I run the macro it finds all occurrences of “um” in all words. When I recorded the macro I checked “whole words only” but it didn’t change the text in the macro. I then tried using Regex \bum\b which works in the Find/Replace box. I see that using Regex caused the message=“1625” line to up to to 2 in the macro, but the macro still finds all instances, not just whole words.

Could you see what I’m doing incorrectly?

<Action type=“3” message=“1700” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1601” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“\bum\b” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1625” wParam=“0” lParam=“2” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1602” wParam=“0” lParam=“0” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1702” wParam=“0” lParam=“768” sParam=“” />
<Action type=“3” message=“1701” wParam=“0” lParam=“1609” sParam=“” />

The sample text “um” I want to replace but not the um in number.

0:09:55.380,0:09:58.980
um

0:09:57.240,0:10:01.980
number 10

Thanks for your help

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/topic/24368/macro-to-replace-whole-wordRSS for NodeSun, 19 Jul 2026 09:33:45 GMTSat, 15 Apr 2023 22:20:21 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to Macro to Replace Whole Word on Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:38:22 GMT]]>@MaximillianM
Glad it’s working now! Very strange that you were having this problem.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85698https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85698Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:38:22 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Macro to Replace Whole Word on Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:37:33 GMT]]>@MaximillianM
Yes, my macro code is exactly the same.
BTW, please wrap code like XML in a code block like so:
``` (triple backticks)
code here
more code
```
so that it renders like this

code here
more code
]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85697https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85697Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:37:33 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Macro to Replace Whole Word on Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:36:47 GMT]]>@Mark-Olson Thanks for your help. I rebooted my computer and now it works.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85696https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85696Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:36:47 GMT<![CDATA[Reply to Macro to Replace Whole Word on Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:31:26 GMT]]>@MaximillianM
does case matter? e.g., do you want to find UM and Um and uM in addition to um?

In any case, it’s very strange that regex-replacing \bum\b doesn’t work for you. I was able to record and save a macro regex-replacing \bum\b with nothing, and it worked find for me.

]]>https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85693https://community.notepad-plus-plus.org/post/85693Sat, 15 Apr 2023 22:31:26 GMT