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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / March 2005Newbie question re: selection
Once a selection has been set, selection.wholestory the text of the document is completely highlighted. I perform a selection.copy and paste that into a new document. How does one clear the selection in the original document programatically? Thanks in advance, Brent The short answer is to select something else -- there is always *something* selected. However a better approach to coding is not to use the Selection at all, except for direct interaction with the user. The Selection is just a special case of Range object, and in code it is easier and quicker to work directly with the Range objects themselves. To copy the body of a document, you can use ActiveDocument.Content.Copy or, equivalently, ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory).Copy > Once a selection has been set, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Brent Hi Jezebel, One exception to this very sound advice is when copying a document. If you use Selection, it will copy the last paragraph mark, including all the section formatting (margins, etc.) Doing the same with the Range object does NOT include the section information, so the result will be different :-) (Had my face rubbed in this a few years ago by someone in the end-user NGs <g>) > The short answer is to select something else -- there is always *something* > selected. [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > with the Range objects themselves. To copy the body of a document, you can > use Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Cindy M -WordMVP- wrote: > One exception to this very sound advice is when copying a document. If you use > Selection, it will copy the last paragraph mark, including all the section > formatting (margins, etc.) Doing the same with the Range object does NOT > include the section information, so the result will be different :-) Excellent tip, thanks, Cindy. Hi Brent, > How does one clear the selection in the original document programatically? Selection.Collapse Cindy Meister INTER-Solutions, Switzerland http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004) http://www.word.mvps.org This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) Thanks for the feed back. It works perfectly. Any suggestions on where I can learn more about Word's vba objects and their functionality? Brent > Hi Brent, > [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > This reply is posted in the Newsgroup; please post any follow question or > reply in the newsgroup and not by e-mail :-) The object browser is a good place to start. Then the Help files and a lot of experimenting. > Thanks for the feed back. It works perfectly. Any suggestions on where I > can [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] >> 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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