WD98: Selection Object Returns Underscores Instead of Text
Article ID: 183637
Article Last Modified on 10/4/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q183637
SYMPTOMS
When you use the Visual Basic for Applications Selection property to return
selected text in a document, underscore characters (_) appear instead of
the expected characters.
CAUSE
The selected text contains text that has been formatted with a Symbol type
font such as Symbol or WingDings.
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.
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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