Article ID: 212526
Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q212526
SUMMARY
This article provides a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure that increments through a document, line by line.
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For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
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
REFERENCES
For additional information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, click the article numbers below to view the articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
212623 WD2000: Macro Programming Resources
226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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