Article ID: 176238
Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q176238
SUMMARY
This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure that increments through a document, line by line.
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The following sample Visual Basic for Applications subroutine (or macro) demonstrates looping through a document, line by line. After it selects a line, it displays a message box containing the line number. Click OK in the message box to allow the code to continue to the next line.
Sub LineByLine()
Dim x As Integer
Dim fdWord As String
' Move the insertion point to the beginning of the document.
Selection.HomeKey Unit:=wdStory, Extend:=wdMove
' Loop number of lines in document.
x = ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("NUMBER OF LINES")
For i = 1 To x
' Select a line.
ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("\LINE").Select
' Display line number.
MsgBox "Line: " & i
' Move to next line.
Selection.MoveRight Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1, Extend:=wdMove
Next i
End Sub
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
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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