Jay,
Many thanks for the tip on finding tab characters. (I should
have known that or discovered it for myself! I think I lapsed
into WordStar/WordPerfect mode!)
Your code is interesting: VBA will find paragraphs with
specific tab stops, yet the user-interface will or won't
depending on which machine you're using. Mmmm... As the Find
or Replace dialog provides for tab-stop searches, then they
should work at the user-interface (so it would seem). I look
forward to your further tests with interest.
Geoff
"Jay Freedman" wrote in message
...
Hi Taz,
I don't have any trouble locating tab characters either, using
^t.
The trouble was in trying to locate text that has a particular
tab stop in
its paragraph formatting, whether or not there's a tab
character leading to
that tab stop. This involves clicking the Format button in the
Find dialog,
selecting Tab, and entering the kind of tab stop you want to
find. Last
night on my home PC it wouldn't find any text with, for
instance, a 2"
left-aligned tab stop even though the document does contain
text like that.
Today on my work PC, it finds it with no problem. Now I don't
know what's
going on... more results later.
--
Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
CyberTaz wrote:
Hi Jay-
FWIW, I've found no problem locating default or custom tabs
with the
^t (Word 2003 or 2002) _unless_ the tab is the result of
Bullets &
Numbering. It does, oddly enough, find tabs in a TOC.
Regards |:)
"Jay Freedman" wrote:
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005 01:21:25 -0000, "Geoff"
wrote:
[snip]
Incidentally, how would I search for a tab character? The
Format button in the Replace dialog seems only to permit
searching for a tab stop (but then the search fails to
find
anything). Also, Ctrl-Tab doesn't enter a tab character.
Thanks again for the leads. I thought you might like to
know
where they took me.
Geoff
I'll let Shauna answer the important part of your question,
since she
knows a lot more than I about numbering and styles.
Regarding the Replace dialog, it will search for a tab
character if
you put the code ^t in the Find What box. If you don't
remember the
code, click the More button, then the Special button, and
select Tab
Character from the list.
When I used the Format button and selected Tab to define a
tab stop
to search for, it didn't find the tab stops in the
document. I think
that's a bug. However, I was able to do it with a macro
like this:
Sub FindTabStop()
Dim oRg As Range
Set oRg = ActiveDocument.Range
With oRg.Find
.ClearFormatting
.Text = ""
.ParagraphFormat.TabStops.Add _
Position:=InchesToPoints(2), _
Alignment:=wdAlignTabLeft
.Forward = True
.Wrap = wdFindContinue
.Format = True
.MatchWildcards = False
If .Execute Then
oRg.Select
End If
End With
End Sub
The macro recorder won't correctly create this kind of
macro.
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Regards,
Jay Freedman
Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org