I would like to know if it is possible to get the "value" of a heading that
Word is using programmatically. I will try to clarify my question with a
demonstration. If I have a document and I set it to use a numbered heading
style for its layout, I might have something that looks like:
1. Overview
2. Introduction
3. How to do it 101
3.1 Starting
3.2 Finding Help
4. Advanced Options
In this case, the leading number and period are supplied by the style, and I
simply type in the text (Overview, Introduction, etc.). When I parse this
document in VBA, I can get the style names and the text, but I'm not sure
how (if it is even possible) to get the characters Word is automatically
generating (1., 2., etc.). Outlined below is a little pseudo code to
provide an idea of where I'm currently sitting:
for each section in WordDoc.Sections
for each paragraph in section.Paragraphs
' Get the text - Overview, Introduction, etc.
text = paragraph.Range.Text
' Get the style name - Heading 1, Heading 2, etc.
styleName = paragraph.style.NameLocal
' How can I get the text Word is putting in based on the style?
<< Unknown code here >>
' Do some stuff with the information.
next
next
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks, Tyler
Dave Lett - 02 Feb 2005 12:41 GMT
Hi Tyler,
I'm not sure how it will fit into your pseudo code (i.e., "based on style"),
but I thought you might find the following useful:
With Selection.Paragraphs(1).Range.ListFormat
Debug.Print .ListString
End With
HTH,
Dave
> I would like to know if it is possible to get the "value" of a heading that
> Word is using programmatically. I will try to clarify my question with a
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> Thanks, Tyler
Tyler - 02 Feb 2005 15:52 GMT
Thank you, that is awesome! It's exactly what I was looking for. Do you
have any good reference material/web sites you would recommend for figuring
out this sort-of information?
Thanks, Tyler
> Hi Tyler,
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Dave Lett - 02 Feb 2005 16:18 GMT
Hi Tyler,
This sort of information? Well, no, I don't. I like the Word MVPs site
(http://word.mvps.org/), but I don't think this is addressed there. For this
one, I simply knew that I needed to poke around with "List" and see what I
could stumble upon.
Dave
> Thank you, that is awesome! It's exactly what I was looking for. Do you
> have any good reference material/web sites you would recommend for figuring
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> >> Thanks, Tyler
Klaus Linke - 08 Feb 2005 19:05 GMT
> Hi Tyler,
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> Dave
It's there in the MVP FAQs, but maybe hard to find if you don't know already
what to search for (say, ListString):
http://www.word.mvps.org/faqs/numbering/ListString.htm
Regards,
Klaus
Dave Lett - 09 Feb 2005 11:37 GMT
I stand corrected, thank you.
Dave
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Klaus Linke - 09 Feb 2005 16:18 GMT
Hi Dave,
I didn't find it easily, either. I just *knew* it was there and kept looking.
And you said you *thought* there wasn't an article, so no correction was called
for...
;-) Klaus
> I stand corrected, thank you.
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