I've a perfectly working function to find and replace a variable with text in word documents.

HRESULT CMSWord::FindReplace( CString szVar, CString szText, bool bOnlyOnce/*=false*/ )
{
    if(m_pWApp==NULL || m_pActiveDocument==NULL) return E_FAIL;
    IDispatch *pDocApp;
    {  
        VARIANT result;
        VariantInit(&result);
        OLEMethod(DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET, &result, m_pActiveDocument, L"Application", 0);
        pDocApp= result.pdispVal;
    }
    IDispatch *pSelection;
    {
        VARIANT result;
        VariantInit(&result);
        OLEMethod(DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET, &result, pDocApp, L"Selection", 0);
        pSelection=result.pdispVal;
    }
    IDispatch *pFind;
    {
        VARIANT result;
        VariantInit(&result);
        OLEMethod(DISPATCH_PROPERTYGET, &result, pSelection, L"Find", 0);
        pFind=result.pdispVal;
    }
    OLEMethod(DISPATCH_METHOD, NULL, pFind, L"ClearFormatting",0);

    szText.Replace(_T("\r\n"), _T("\v")); 
    COleVariant sVariable(szVar);
    COleVariant sReplaceText(szText);
    COleVariant replace((long)2);
    COleVariant varBoolTrue;
    varBoolTrue.boolVal = true;
    COleVariant varBoolFalse;
    varBoolFalse.boolVal = false;
    COleVariant wdContinue((long)1);
    bool bFound=false;
    IDispatch *pExecute = NULL;
    {
        for(;;) {
            VARIANT result;
            VariantInit(&result);

            if(OLEMethod(DISPATCH_METHOD, &result, pFind, L"Execute", 8, wdContinue, varBoolTrue, varBoolFalse, varBoolFalse, varBoolFalse, varBoolTrue, varBoolFalse, sVariable)==S_OK) {
                pExecute=result.pdispVal;
                if(!pExecute) break;
                bFound = true;
                if(szText.IsEmpty()) DeleteChar(false);         else SetSelectionText(szText);
            }
            else break;
            if(bOnlyOnce) break;
        }
    }
    pDocApp->Release();
    pSelection->Release();
    pFind->Release();
    if
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