selection lines span?

[Helmut Weber]

Hi friends,

maybe you've followed the discussion on "find line numbers".
As easy as that, it seemed, but read, what Larry reports.

I thought about this and that,
but things got more and more complicated.

Here and now I have arrived at this mystery:

Alright with the selection within one line:

With Selection
MsgBox .Characters.First.Bookmarks("\line").Range.Text
MsgBox .Characters.Last.Bookmarks("\line").Range.Text
End With

Not so if the selection spans over more than one line.

"The requested member of the collection does not exist".

Any thoughts?

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[Helmut Weber]

Forgive me,

the topic was
"Determining if a selection goes to a second line"

Not my day.

Helmut weber

 

[Jay Freedman]

Hi Helmut,

It appears that VBA isn't willing to allow Selection.Characters.Last
to have any built-in bookmarks. Here's a workaround, using a Range as
a "placeholder" so the Selection can be restored after collapsing it.

Dim oRg As Range
Set oRg = Selection.Range

Selection.Collapse wdCollapseStart
MsgBox Selection.Bookmarks("\line").Range.Text

oRg.Select ' the original selection
Selection.Collapse wdCollapseEnd
MsgBox Selection.Bookmarks("\line").Range.Text

oRg.Select ' the original selection
Set oRg = Nothing

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[Tony Jollans]

As I understand it, the "\Line" predefined bookmark only applies to the
Selection - not to other Ranges. I am, therefore, more surprised that the
first line works than that the second one doesn't.