MS Word 2003

[Ashok Dwivedi]

Hi everyone!

For one of my programms, I want to find the 'index of selected word' in the
document which will then be passed to the function below:
ActiveDocument.Words(index)

Please help!

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Ashok,


MsgBox ActiveDocument.Range _
(0, selection.Range.End).Words.Count

see:

http://word.mvps.org/faqs/macrosvba/GetIndexNoOfPara.htm

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Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

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[Ashok Dwivedi]

Thanks Helmut for the reply and it worked. This is exactly what I already have.
The problem is, I am using a big for loop, where the index info is required
and
setting the range each time you loop makes the program work really slow. Is
there another way of getting 'index' without having to set the range?

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Ashok,

The problem is, I am using a big for loop,
where the index info is required and
setting the range each time you loop
makes the program work really slow.
Is there another way of getting 'index'
without having to set the range?

in principle, I don't think so.
Though setting a range in each iteration
of a loop isn't necessary. Maybe just moving
the range's end might be a bit faster.

Hard to give any more specific advice
whithout knowing what exactly you are doing.

One could think of getting just the first word's
index and incremeting it according to the distance
in words until the next word is found.

But that is mere speculation.

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Greetings from Bavaria, Germany

Helmut Weber, MVP WordVBA

Win XP, Office 2003
"red.sys" & Chr$(64) & "t-online.de"

 

[Tony Jollans]

Elements from the Words Collection are Ranges.

ActiveDocument.Words(234) is a Range with, perhaps, Start = 1234 and End =
1239

ActiveDocument.Range(1234,1239) is *exactly* the same Range.

The only reason for needing the Index is to pass it a process (or a person)
outside the VBA environment. What process do you have that requires it?