VBA Word 2002: how to get the document sentence/word # for the current (collapsed) insertion point

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Avraham Makeler - 17 Jul 2005 21:03 GMT

Hi all,

VBA Word 2002:
Anybody know how to get the document sentence number for the current
(collapsed) insertion point?

I need to display some sort of progress of running a processing routine on a
document. I am not processing on a sentence-by-sentence basis; rather the
processing searches for highlited areas, and so when a hit is made I don't
know where I am in the document. So I need some way of getting some sort of
umber to tell me where I am. Btw, this doesn't have to be the sentence
number: this could also be Word #, Line #, Paragraph # (less good). I
couldn't find any "return index number" functions in the API.

tia

Avraham Makeler

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Jay Freedman - 17 Jul 2005 22:09 GMT

>Hi all,
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>Avraham Makeler

Hi Avraham,

Look at http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/GetIndexNoOfPara.htm,
which shows how to get the index number of the current member of any
collection that has a .Count property.

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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org

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Avi Mak - 18 Jul 2005 07:37 GMT

Thanks, Jay.

You managed to answer faster than I could jump in and answer my own
question. I had made one further search and found the following answer:

ActiveDocument.Range(0, Selection.Range.End).Sentences.Count

(in the name of Doug Robbins - Word MVP)

which is the same idea as the answer you refer to.

I am a programmer of many years experience, but a relative beginner at
VBA. I am surprised that obtaining a sentence/para/word index index is
so convoluted. I would guess that this solution requires a lot of CPU
time, and indeed this seems to be borne out in practice. I have written
a progress bar, and it severely slows down the processing of the
document. It runs a lot faster without the progress bar, but I DO want
the progress bar. Ok, so I decide to recalculate and display it only
every 5 or 10 times, so that helps - just makes it look a bit jumpy.

Thanks.

Avraham.

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Avi Mak - 18 Jul 2005 11:01 GMT

Ok, I tried it. It is just tooo slow - it takes longer than the time
needed to process the document ...! The PCs I have at my place of work
are too slow to take this. (The company buys cheapo whenever it can -
low MegaHertz, Narrow buses, small caches, etc. My own PC at home is a
2.8GHz FULL. And it blazes. But I am not at home; I am at work.)

Anybody have any better ideas how to get the line/para/sentence?

Avraham.

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