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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / July 2007TypeText returns before completing
Does TypeText return before completing? I have a long macro that does loops. In the loop, it does a find, and then uses TypeText to replace the found string, and then does a few MoveDown's and deletes some stuff. If I step through the code line by line it works fine, but when I run the macro, it seems to do the delete before typeText is finished. I might have solved the issue by putting a delay after the TypeText so that word can "catch up" to the typing. But this seems like a bad solution. Can anyone answer the above question about TypeText? I found some suggestions in other threads. One person suggested putting word into Normal view, and turning off auto-pagination. That does seem to help. It lets the macro run faster. Another person reccommended using Range instead of things like Select.TypeText. I'm pretty sure that Selection.Typetext is ascynchronous. Can anyone verify that Range commands are synchronous (won't return until the change is made)? > I found some suggestions in other threads. One person suggested > putting word into Normal view, and turning off auto-pagination. That [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > ascynchronous. Can anyone verify that Range commands are synchronous > (won't return until the change is made)? It's not that Range commands are synchronous, but they're orders of magnitude faster than Selection.TypeText, especially if screen redrawing hasn't been turned off. Assigning myRange.Text = someStringValue is nearly instantaneous, even if the string is very long.  SignatureRegards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. > jamie.fal...@gmail.com wrote: > > I found some suggestions in other threads. One person suggested [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so > all may benefit. Gotcha. Thank you. Am I likely to be ok with Selection.TypeText if I require background repagination to be turned off? In the future I'll avoid using Selection.TypeText in a loop. -Jamie > Am I likely to be ok with Selection.TypeText if I > require background repagination to be turned off? Hi Jamie, Another problem with .TypeText is that it's limited to 64kB (about 32000 characters). If your strings might be longer, you'd need to replace it with Selection.InsertAfter -- followed by Selection.Collapse(wdCollapseEnd) if necessary. Regards, Klaus |
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