Article ID: 292152
Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q292152
SYMPTOMS
When you use a Visual Basic for Application macro that performs an operation on the currently selected text, the macro may not function as expected.
CAUSE
This behavior can occur when both of the following conditions are true:
- The selection is discontiguous. There are two or more selections of text.
- The Selection property or method being used does not apply across discontiguous selections.
Some properties and methods of the Selection object only apply to a single selection or the most recently selected text.
WORKAROUND
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For more information how to use the sample code in this article, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
290140 How to run the sample code for the Office XP programs from Knowledge Base articles
You can reduce a discontiguous selection to a selection of the most recently selected text by using the ShrinkDiscontiguousSelection method.
The following macro example changes the selection to the most recently selected text and displays the character count:
Sub A()
Selection.ShrinkDiscontiguousSelection
MsgBox Selection.Characters.Count
End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed in the "Applies to" section.
MORE INFORMATION
For more information about how to select discontiguous text, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
286789 How to select items that are not next to each other
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