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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / November 2005Acessing Paragraph Lines?
Hi, General question with WORD2000. I converted some text to a 2 column table which has fixed column widths. If the column 1 text starts with an alphabetic then columns 1 and 2 in that row are merged. If the text wraps to more than 1 line I would like to be able to retrieve each line and place a manual line break at the end of the line (need this for other processing). The text font is a proportional font (Arial) and is a given and cannot be changed. Is this possible to do? I looked all over and cannot seem to find anything that would help. I seem to remember there is a TextWidth function but it seems that it does not exist in VBA. Any hints or solutions would be greatly appreciated. If API's are needed that is acceptable. Thanks in advance for any help. Jerry Bodoff You can get to the lines of a document through the (somewhat mysterious and ill-documented) Pages and Rectangles properties of the Pane object --- activewindow.ActivePane.Pages(1).Rectangles(1).Lines You'll need to experiment to find out how these objects function, because no-one seems to have the faintest idea about them (you don't see many posts about them). From my little experience: the Rectangles collection comprises the headers, footers, columns, and non-inline shapes on the page. (There might well be other things that get included.) Each line is a graphic entity, representing (in effect) a rectangle across the column wholly enclosing the text of that line. > Hi, > [quoted text clipped - 19 lines] > > Jerry Bodoff Hi Jezebel, Thanks. Are we still referring to a table row using this? Jerry Bodoff > You can get to the lines of a document through the (somewhat mysterious and > ill-documented) Pages and Rectangles properties of the Pane object --- [quoted text clipped - 32 lines] > > > > Jerry Bodoff You can get to *everything* that's represented on the page through that object; but you'll to do your own research to work out how. :) > Hi Jezebel, > [quoted text clipped - 50 lines] >> > >> > Jerry Bodoff Hi Jezebel, Thanks for your help. I appreciate it. Now to get it to work. Jerry Bodoff > You can get to *everything* that's represented on the page through that > object; but you'll to do your own research to work out how. :) [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> > > >> > Jerry Bodoff Hi Jezebel, To find out what I am getting I typed your statement : activewindow.ActivePane.Pages(1).Rectangles(1).Lines into a one line macro. When I run the macro in debug I get the error "method or data member not found" on the Pages(1). Is this something that is in other than WORD2000? Doing more searching on the Microsoft KB I found something that gives me the number of lines in a range of text. That will probably not give me what I want so "back to the drawing board". I am also looking at API's to see if I can locate something to give me the actual width of the text. Once I get that I can figure out where to put the manual line breaks. Thanks for your help. Jerry Bodoff > You can get to *everything* that's represented on the page through that > object; but you'll to do your own research to work out how. :) [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> > > >> > Jerry Bodoff Sorry. The feature was added in Word XP. > Hi Jezebel, > [quoted text clipped - 83 lines] >> >> > >> >> > Jerry Bodoff Hi Jezebel, Not as sorry as I am. It looks like it would be very helpful and useful. I could never understand why VBA does not allow some additional VB6 type controls (Grid Control and Toolbar at least, Rich Text control would also be nice if one knows how to use it). When one has programmed in VB6 it gets to be a pain trying to replicate those controls in VBA. Once again you have been very helpful. I really appreciate your time. Jerry Bodoff > Sorry. The feature was added in Word XP. > [quoted text clipped - 85 lines] > >> >> > > >> >> > Jerry Bodoff Hi Jezebel, I was able to accomplish what I wanted by setting the cursor to the row that wraps and using the selection object go to the end of the line and put the manual break. Did that for each line except the last. Thanks again. Jerry Bodoff > You can get to *everything* that's represented on the page through that > object; but you'll to do your own research to work out how. :) [quoted text clipped - 53 lines] > >> > > >> > Jerry Bodoff
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