WD97: StoryRanges Does Not Return Text Box Text In Header/Footer

Last reviewed: February 11, 1998
Article ID: Q165977
The information in this article applies to:
  • Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

You can use the Visual Basic for Applications StoryRanges collection to return text from all parts of a document including text boxes. However, attempting to return text from a textbox located in a header or footer does not return the text as expected.

The following macro demonstrates this behavior if your document contains a Text box within a header of footer:

   Sub ForEntireDocument()
      Dim oDoc As Document
      Dim oStory As Range
      For Each oStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
         MsgBox oStory.Text
      Next
   End Sub

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STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.


Additional query words: vb vba vbe
Keywords : kbmacro kbprg kbwordvba word8 word97
Version : 97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug


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Last reviewed: February 11, 1998
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