Accepting deletions in a selected area

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robot - 31 Jul 2006 09:04 GMT

Hello,

I use the following code to accept all deletions in the selected area of a
document with revision marks:

Dim r As Revision
For Each r In Selection.Range.Revisions
If r.Type = wdRevisionDelete Then r.Accept
Next r

However, no matter what area I selected, the above code always accepts all
deletions in the *entire* document. What went wrong?

I use Office XP and Win XP pro. Suggestions are most welcome.

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Jonathan West - 31 Jul 2006 13:30 GMT

> Hello,
>
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> I use Office XP and Win XP pro. Suggestions are most welcome.

There is a bug in the Revisions collection, which I think was introduced in
Word 2002 - it is also there in Word 2003. Whatever you range you create a
Revisions collection for, the actual collection returned is the Revisions
collection for the whole document.

Therefore, you need to make an additional test in your code, whether the
revision's Range property is within the selection's range. Use the InRange
method to compare 2 ranges, or compare the Start and End properties of the
two ranges. Something like this

Dim r As Revision
For Each r In ActiveDocument.Range.Revisions
If r.Inrange(Selection.Range) Then
If r.Type = wdRevisionDelete Then
r.Accept
End If
End If
Next r

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