font-information in arrays

[Martin Müller]

Dear experts,

is there any way in VBA to store strings in an array
whereby their bold- and sub-/superscript-information is
preserved? Up to now, I find that a string that contains
indices as subscripts loose the subscript information (or
any font-information, presumably) when this string is
stored in an array (via array(i) = Selection.Text) and
subsequently typed out (via Selection.TypeText Text:=array
(i)). Bold-information could be reproduced, but the loss
of the subscripts deforms any sort of chemical formulae.

Best regards
Martin

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Martin,

Unfortunately Word doesn't have a "formatted text" data type.

The best you can manage is an array of Range objects, where the formatted
text is stored somewhere within the document, and the Range variables
indicate where each bit of formatted text is.

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[Helmut Weber]

Hi Martin,
can't believe that bold information can be reproduced.
Must be an incident, in so far, as the position,
where the text was inserted, was bold anway.
Same applies to any formatting, AFAIK.
If it has to be, I would store the information
in a second word document.
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber
"red.sys" & chr$(64) & "t-online.de"
Word 97, W98

 

[Martin Müller]

Thank you for the information; as a solution I was
thinking about the 'copy' and 'paste' commands, that
preserve any formatting, so that the new arrangement of
all the strings (alphabetical order of formulae according
to elements therein) must be performed in 'real time'
which seems to me fault-prone.
Unfortunately I am not used to the work with range-
objects; could you please give a short script that for
example stores a string in an array of range objects, so
that I recognize where to start from?
Best regards
Martin

 

[Michael Smith]

Why not use a multidimensional array? Then you can save as many properties
as you want. See MSDN for more info:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/vbcon98/html/vbconarrays.asp

Mike