Assign text to String with formatting?

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Ed - 04 Apr 2006 16:25 GMT

Are the commands or switches I can use to directly assign text to a string
within a macro with formatting? For instance, if I have:
strText = "This is my text."
can I format it, say, bold so when I write it to a document I get:
"This is my text."

Ed

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Jay Freedman - 04 Apr 2006 16:53 GMT

No. A string is just a sequence of characters -- there's nowhere in it to
store any formatting. You must insert the string into the document and then
format it there. IMHO, the best way to do that is with a Range object. For
instance, say you want to insert and format the string after the current
selection:

Dim strText As String
Dim rg As Range

strText = "This is my text."
Set rg = Selection.Range
rg.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
rg.Text = strText
rg.Bold = True
Set rg = Nothing ' cleanup

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> Are the commands or switches I can use to directly assign text to a
> string within a macro with formatting? For instance, if I have:
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>
> Ed

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Helmut Weber - 04 Apr 2006 17:03 GMT

Hi Ed,

IMHO, no.
A string is a sequence of bytes.
One could set up a two dimensional array for formatting,
which holds the formatting information for each character,
but I'd say, forget about it.

Would be a nive feature to have.
Not too difficult, but lots and lots of tedious coding.

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