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Oz Springs - 05 Jan 2005 00:11 GMT

I want to select all of a document, but if the cursor is in a text box, only
the text therein will be selected.

How can I get the cursor back into the main body of the document so I can
select all the text, including all anchored things like text boxes and
graphics?

Thanks for any help

Oz

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Jean-Guy Marcil - 05 Jan 2005 06:55 GMT

Oz Springs was telling us:
Oz Springs nous racontait que :

> I want to select all of a document, but if the cursor is in a text
> box, only the text therein will be selected.
>
> How can I get the cursor back into the main body of the document so I
> can select all the text, including all anchored things like text
> boxes and graphics?

This will do the trick:
'_______________________________________
Dim StartRange As Range

'To save user selection
Set StartRange = Selection.Range

ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=0).Select
Selection.WholeStory

Selection.Copy

'reset user selection
StartRange.Select
'_______________________________________

But why don't you tell us what you are doing? It may not be necessary to
actually select the whole document...

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Oz Springs - 06 Jan 2005 21:40 GMT

Jean-Guy

Thank you very much for this. I haven¹t checked it out yet, but shall do
shortly.

Kind regards

Oz

On 5/1/05 06:55, in article O9xjROv8EHA.2060@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl, "Jean-Guy
Marcil" <no-spam@leaveme.alone> wrote:

> Oz Springs was telling us:
> Oz Springs nous racontait que :
[quoted text clipped - 24 lines]
> But why don't you tell us what you are doing? It may not be necessary to
> actually select the whole document...

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