How to repeat text in Microsoft Word.

Method 1: The copy-paste trick (small N)

For small numbers (5-20 repetitions), brute force works:

1. Type your text once and select it
2. Press Ctrl+C to copy
3. Press Ctrl+V N times

Or use the "find and replace" trick: type the text 5 times, select all 5, copy, then keep pasting. Each paste doubles your text in chunks.

Method 2: Quick Parts AutoText

If you repeat the same phrase often (form letters, boilerplate):

1. Type the text, then select it
2. Insert → Quick Parts → AutoText → Save Selection to AutoText Gallery
3. Give it a name, then type that name and press F3 to expand it

Useful for repetition with edits between (like personalized greetings).

Method 3: VBA macro (large N)

For larger counts, a macro is fastest. Press Alt+F11 to open the VBA editor, paste this, and run it:

Sub RepeatText()
    Dim s As String
    s = InputBox("Text to repeat:")
    Dim n As Integer
    n = InputBox("How many times:")
    Dim i As Integer
    For i = 1 To n
        Selection.TypeText Text:=s & vbCrLf
    Next i
End Sub

Save the macro, run it, enter the text and count, and Word will insert the repeated text at your cursor.

The fastest option for one-off repetition

If you just need a long repeated string once, use our browser-based repeater: type, set count, click Copy, paste into Word. Faster than opening the VBA editor.

Three ways in Microsoft Word

Word has no single "repeat" button, but there are quick routes. The simplest is copy once and paste repeatedly (Ctrl+V), doubling your selection each time to grow fast. Word also remembers the last action, so pressing Ctrl+Y or F4 repeats a paste.

Find & Replace and AutoText

To insert many copies at once, type a placeholder, then use Find & Replace to swap it for your repeated text. For text you reuse often, save it as an AutoText entry (Insert → Quick Parts) and drop it in whenever you need it. For a fixed number of copies, a one-line VBA macro with String() or a loop does it precisely.

Or generate and paste

When you just need N copies with clean separators or numbering, the repeater is quicker than any Word trick: set the count, choose a separator, copy, and paste into your document.