WD97: Para Mark Not Included In Selection.MoveRight(wdSentence)

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Visual Basic for Applications Selection Property to return text from a sentence, the paragraph mark is not included. By contrast, when you use the Sentences collection to return text of a sentence, the paragraph mark is included.

CAUSE

The following macro demonstrates this behavior. The first message box will display 0 (zero) indicating that no paragraph mark is contained within the selection. The second message box will display 12 indicating that a paragraph mark is found within the selection whose position within the selection is the twelfth character.

   Sub SentencesCollection()
      ActiveDocument.Range.Text = "Sentence 1." & vbCr & "Sentence 2."
      Selection.MoveRight wdSentence, 1, wdExtend
      MsgBox InStr(1, Selection, vbCr)
      MsgBox InStr(1, Selection.Sentences(1), vbCr)
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

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