Microsoft KB Archive/204454

= WD2000: WordBasic.Selection$ Returns Empty Value for Selected Table Cell =

Article ID: 204454

Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q204454



SYMPTOMS
When you use the WordBasic.Selection$ command in Visual Basic for Applications and the current selection includes text in a table cell, the value returned is an empty value when the end of cell marker is selected.



RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, replace the WordBasic.Selection$ command with the equivalent Visual Basic for Applications command, Selection.Text.

Note that using Selection.Text may return the end of cell marker. To avoid returning the end of cell marker, you can use the following example command line: ' Remove table cell markers from selected text. sCellText = Left$(Selection.Text, Len(Selection.Text) - 2)



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

