Word hands on selection.MoveEndWhile with comments

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Alex - 03 May 2006 20:15 GMT

Happened with Word 2003.

Create the following Word document

AAA<p>
<p>
<p>

where <p> is the paragraph marker.

Select the whole document and do:

selection.MoveEndWhile Chr(13), wdBackward

Works fine.

Now, select the 1st line (the AAA) and add a comment to it.

Again, select the whole document and do:

selection.MoveEndWhile Chr(13), wdBackward

Word hangs.

How can I overcome that?

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP - 04 May 2006 04:59 GMT

Avoid using the Selection. What is it that you are actually trying to do?

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Alex - 04 May 2006 15:16 GMT

> Avoid using the Selection.

Pardon?

I was using the selection to illustrate, the actual code uses a range.

> What is it that you are actually trying to do?

I am trying to strip empty paragraphs from the beginning and end of a range (using MoveEndWhile and MoveStartWhile).

This is a part of a Word add-in that processes and transforms marked parts of a user-created document into a format that one of our applications can digest.

My current "solution" is something like (translated to VBA):

Sub trim(rng As Range)
rng.MoveStartWhile vbCr, wdForward
If rng.Comments.Count > 0 Then
While rng.Characters.Last.Text = vbCr
rng.MoveEnd wdCharacter, -1
Wend
Else
rng.MoveEndWhile vbCr, wdBackward
End If
End Sub

but it looks ugly.

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Cindy M -WordMVP- - 04 May 2006 17:15 GMT

Hi Alex,

Well, FWIW I'm able to duplicate the problem you describe. From what I can see in the VBA-Editor, it's not so much that Word crashes, but that the macro goes
into an unending loop. I'm guessing it gets into a comment range and can't get out... So your solution, as ugly as it seems, is probably as good as anything
else.

> I am trying to strip empty paragraphs from the beginning and end of a range (using MoveEndWhile and MoveStartWhile).
>
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>
> but it looks ugly.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister
http://www.word.mvps.org

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Tony Jollans - 05 May 2006 20:21 GMT

When I first saw this, I tried it quickly and where there should have been a
chr(5) for the comment, I found a zero length character (range); I vowed to
come back and look later. Then sometime while I was out, my computer crashed
(USB problem unrelated to Word). Since restarting and restarting Word I am
completely unable to reproduce it. In normal circumstances I would put it
down to some sort of corruption but if you get it repeatedly there must be
circumstances which cause it - at the moment I don't know what they may be.

--
Enjoy,
Tony

> Hi Alex,
>
> Well, FWIW I'm able to duplicate the problem you describe. From what I can see in the VBA-Editor, it's not so much that Word crashes, but that the

macro goes

> into an unending loop. I'm guessing it gets into a comment range and can't get out... So your solution, as ugly as it seems, is probably as good as

anything

> else.
>
> > I am trying to strip empty paragraphs from the beginning and end of a range (using MoveEndWhile and MoveStartWhile).
> >
> > This is a part of a Word add-in that processes and transforms marked parts of a user-created document into a format that one of our applications

can digest.

> > My current "solution" is something like (translated to VBA):
> >
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>
> This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-)

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