Discontiquous Selection in Word 2003

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harpda - 31 May 2004 14:01 GMT

Does anyone know if Word 2003 fully supports discontiquous selection. Word 2002 offers limited support for programatically extracting discontiquous selections but I've been unable to find any documentation for this feature in Word 2003

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Helmut Weber - 31 May 2004 15:28 GMT

Hi,
some time ago, I asked a similar question and got this
answer by Cindy Meister.

>There's next to no programming interface for multiple, separate
>selections. It's been a while since I tried anything with it,
>but I think the only way to use it is as part of the
>WordBasic object model: Wordbasic.selectSimilarFormatting

>As I recall, I was told during the Word 2002 beta that the team
>had wanted to expose this functionality to VBA, but had run into
>problems (time, money), so wasn't able to do so. And apparently it
>was "forgotten" as we came into the next version.

Though I think, highlighting or the use of different colors
(> 16,000,000)! for different ranges might be sufficient in some
cases.
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98

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