Range Properties Limitation?

[George Lee]

Is there a limitation to using Range's Start and End properties directly? In
the help files, the following works properly:
Set rngDoc = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=10)
as does
ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=10).Bold = True

But using this in my code, I always get "Wrong number of arguments or
invalid property assignment" when using:
myString = Selection.Range(Start:=100, End:=150).Text
or
myString = whichDocument.Tables(1).Range(Start:=100, End:=150).Text

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

I would use

Dim myrange As Range
Set myrange = Selection.Range
myrange.Start = myrange.Start + 100
myrange.End = myrange.Start + 50
myrange.Bold = True

the embolden the 100th thru the 150th characters in the selection.

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[George Lee]

Thanks. That's what I'm currently doing.

The code appears inside a Find.Execute function, so to make it work, I have
to save the Start and End separately, change the range and get the text then
reset the range. Since I'm not actually changing anything, I was hoping I
could just declare the range I want without resetting anything.

 

[Tony Jollans]

The, rather confusing, difference is because Range is a Method of a Document
and takes parameters, and a Property of the Selection which doesn't..

One way to do what you want would be something like this ...

With Selection
.document.range(.start+100, .start+150).bold=true
End With