Microsoft KB Archive/162528

= WD97: Returning Object Counts for Parts of a Document =

Article ID: 162528

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q162528





SUMMARY
In Visual Basic for Applications, an object represents an element of an application, such as a document, a paragraph, a sentence, a word, or a field.

A collection is an object that contains several other objects, usually, but not always, of the same type. In Microsoft Word, for example, the Documents Collection object contains all the open document objects.

At times it may be necessary when you write Visual Basic for Applications macros to return the number of objects within a particular collection of objects.

This article discusses methods that can be used to return the count of a collection of objects for part or all of a document including but not limited to objects located in headers, footers, and different sections of a document.



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Method 1: To Return a Count of Objects for an Entire Document
To return a count of objects for an entire document including those contained in headers, footers, comments, endnotes, footnotes and text frames use the StoryRanges Collection object.

A Story object is contained within the Story Collection. Members of the Story collection are


 * The Main Text or Body of a Document
 * First Page Header
 * First Page Footer
 * Primary Header
 * Primary Footer
 * Even Pages Headers
 * Even Pages Footers
 * Comments
 * EndNotes
 * Footnotes
 * Text Frames

For example, to count the number of fields in all stories of a document, use the following example:

Sub CountAllFields Dim iCount As Integer Dim aStory As Range For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges iCount = iCount + aStory.Fields.Count Next MsgBox iCount End Sub To count the number of Shapes(Drawing Objects) in all stories of a document, use the following example: Sub CountAllShapes Dim iCount As Integer Dim aStory As Range For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges iCount = iCount + aStory.Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes.Count Next MsgBox iCount End Sub To count the number of Hyperlinks in all stories of a document, use the following example: Sub CountAllHyperLinks Dim iCount As Integer Dim aStory As Range For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges iCount = iCount + _ aStory.Application.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Count Next MsgBox iCount End Sub

Method 2: To Return a Count of Objects for Part of a Document
To return a count of items for a single member of the StoryRange, specify a member of the story range with a wdStoryType constant.

In this example, the wdMainTextStory constant is used in conjunction with the Paragraphs collection to return the count of paragraphs in the main text or body of a document: Sub CountParagraphs With ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory) MsgBox .Paragraphs.Count End With End Sub In this example, the wdMainTextStory constant is used in conjunction with the Sentences Collection to return the count of sentences in the main body of a document: Sub CountSentencesInMainDocBody With ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory) MsgBox .Sentences.Count End With End Sub For more information about StoryRanges, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type StoryRanges click Search, and then click to view "StoryRanges."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

