Article ID: 165716
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q165716
SYMPTOMS
When you use the Visual Basic for Applications Selection Property to return
text from a sentence, the paragraph mark is not included. By contrast, when
you use the Sentences collection to return text of a sentence, the
paragraph mark is included.
CAUSE
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The following macro demonstrates this behavior. The first message box will
display 0 (zero) indicating that no paragraph mark is contained within the
selection. The second message box will display 12 indicating that a
paragraph mark is found within the selection whose position within the
selection is the twelfth character.
Sub SentencesCollection()
ActiveDocument.Range.Text = "Sentence 1." & vbCr & "Sentence 2."
Selection.MoveRight wdSentence, 1, wdExtend
MsgBox InStr(1, Selection, vbCr)
MsgBox InStr(1, Selection.Sentences(1), vbCr)
End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in
the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.
REFERENCES
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435
VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
Applications
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