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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separators
Word seems to have unexpectedly changed in its ability to find Style
Separators. In years past (and versions past), you could insert a Style Separator, then locate it later using Word's find dialog by searching for text "^p" with font Hidden. It is, after all, basically just a paragraph mark, and it's font attribute is Hidden. But all of the sudden--not sure if it's just something that started with Word 2007 SP2--it is no longer found with these parameters. This came as quite a surprise as several macros I use to find Style Separators just stopped working. Does anyone have an inside scoop into changes that may have been made recently to the behavior of the Find dialog with respect to Style Separator paragraphs? And if so, why the decision to make this change was made by Microsoft? Thanks |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separators
Are you sure that you were actually using style separators and not Hidden
paragraph marks when this Find worked for you? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "wordyOne" wrote in message ... Word seems to have unexpectedly changed in its ability to find Style Separators. In years past (and versions past), you could insert a Style Separator, then locate it later using Word's find dialog by searching for text "^p" with font Hidden. It is, after all, basically just a paragraph mark, and it's font attribute is Hidden. But all of the sudden--not sure if it's just something that started with Word 2007 SP2--it is no longer found with these parameters. This came as quite a surprise as several macros I use to find Style Separators just stopped working. Does anyone have an inside scoop into changes that may have been made recently to the behavior of the Find dialog with respect to Style Separator paragraphs? And if so, why the decision to make this change was made by Microsoft? Thanks |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separators
On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:17:02 -0800, wordyOne
wrote: Word seems to have unexpectedly changed in its ability to find Style Separators. In years past (and versions past), you could insert a Style Separator, then locate it later using Word's find dialog by searching for text "^p" with font Hidden. It is, after all, basically just a paragraph mark, and it's font attribute is Hidden. But all of the sudden--not sure if it's just something that started with Word 2007 SP2--it is no longer found with these parameters. This came as quite a surprise as several macros I use to find Style Separators just stopped working. Does anyone have an inside scoop into changes that may have been made recently to the behavior of the Find dialog with respect to Style Separator paragraphs? And if so, why the decision to make this change was made by Microsoft? Thanks As far as I can tell, nothing has changed in this regard between Word 2003 and Word 2007. If nonprinting characters (or just hidden text) are displayed, the search you described will find the style separator in either version. If nonprinting characters (or just hidden text) are not displayed, then the search finds nothing. In VBA code, you can find hidden characters including style separators by using the .Find member of a Range object instead of that of the Selection object, and setting the Range object's ..TextRetrievalMode.IncludeHiddenText property to True: Sub demo1() Dim oRg As Range Set oRg = Selection.Range oRg.End = ActiveDocument.Range.End oRg.TextRetrievalMode.IncludeHiddenText = True With oRg.Find .Format = True .Font.Hidden = True .Text = "^p" If .Execute Then ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True oRg.Select End If End With End Sub The Range object is necessary because the Selection object doesn't have a .TextRetrievalMode member. Note that the .ShowHiddenText turns on the Hidden Text item in Office button Word Options Display, independently of the "Show all formatting marks" which is tied to the ¶ button on the ribbon -- but it will show all hidden text, not just the style separators. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separato
Thanks for your reply. Yes, it is definitely Word's style separator - I used
the InsertStyleSeparator command under All Commands. I have also double-checked jsut to be sure, and indeed on my Word 2003 SP3 PC, I can do a Find command for ^p and Hidden and the style separator is definitely found. My macros have worked since the inception of the Style Separtor feature, but something definitely changed which broke the ability to find them with Word 2007. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote: Are you sure that you were actually using style separators and not Hidden paragraph marks when this Find worked for you? -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA http://word.mvps.org "wordyOne" wrote in message ... Word seems to have unexpectedly changed in its ability to find Style Separators. In years past (and versions past), you could insert a Style Separator, then locate it later using Word's find dialog by searching for text "^p" with font Hidden. It is, after all, basically just a paragraph mark, and it's font attribute is Hidden. But all of the sudden--not sure if it's just something that started with Word 2007 SP2--it is no longer found with these parameters. This came as quite a surprise as several macros I use to find Style Separators just stopped working. Does anyone have an inside scoop into changes that may have been made recently to the behavior of the Find dialog with respect to Style Separator paragraphs? And if so, why the decision to make this change was made by Microsoft? Thanks . |
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Thanks Jay. I have made sure that display of Hidden text is definitely turned
on when running my macros. Whether via the Find command in VBA or through Word's UI, the ^p with Hidden checked no longer finds Word's style separators. I have confirmed that the exact same steps always worked (and still do) for finding Style Separators in Word 2003. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:17:02 -0800, wordyOne wrote: Word seems to have unexpectedly changed in its ability to find Style Separators. In years past (and versions past), you could insert a Style Separator, then locate it later using Word's find dialog by searching for text "^p" with font Hidden. It is, after all, basically just a paragraph mark, and it's font attribute is Hidden. But all of the sudden--not sure if it's just something that started with Word 2007 SP2--it is no longer found with these parameters. This came as quite a surprise as several macros I use to find Style Separators just stopped working. Does anyone have an inside scoop into changes that may have been made recently to the behavior of the Find dialog with respect to Style Separator paragraphs? And if so, why the decision to make this change was made by Microsoft? Thanks As far as I can tell, nothing has changed in this regard between Word 2003 and Word 2007. If nonprinting characters (or just hidden text) are displayed, the search you described will find the style separator in either version. If nonprinting characters (or just hidden text) are not displayed, then the search finds nothing. In VBA code, you can find hidden characters including style separators by using the .Find member of a Range object instead of that of the Selection object, and setting the Range object's ..TextRetrievalMode.IncludeHiddenText property to True: Sub demo1() Dim oRg As Range Set oRg = Selection.Range oRg.End = ActiveDocument.Range.End oRg.TextRetrievalMode.IncludeHiddenText = True With oRg.Find .Format = True .Font.Hidden = True .Text = "^p" If .Execute Then ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True oRg.Select End If End With End Sub The Range object is necessary because the Selection object doesn't have a .TextRetrievalMode member. Note that the .ShowHiddenText turns on the Hidden Text item in Office button Word Options Display, independently of the "Show all formatting marks" which is tied to the ¶ button on the ribbon -- but it will show all hidden text, not just the style separators. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separato
The code I posted before works for me in Word 2007 on two different
computers. Does it not work for you? (One note: Because of the way the range is defined in the macro, the cursor does need to be placed closer to the start of the document than the style separator before running the macro in order to find the separator.) Jay wordyOne wrote: Thanks Jay. I have made sure that display of Hidden text is definitely turned on when running my macros. Whether via the Find command in VBA or through Word's UI, the ^p with Hidden checked no longer finds Word's style separators. I have confirmed that the exact same steps always worked (and still do) for finding Style Separators in Word 2003. "Jay Freedman" wrote: On Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:17:02 -0800, wordyOne wrote: Word seems to have unexpectedly changed in its ability to find Style Separators. In years past (and versions past), you could insert a Style Separator, then locate it later using Word's find dialog by searching for text "^p" with font Hidden. It is, after all, basically just a paragraph mark, and it's font attribute is Hidden. But all of the sudden--not sure if it's just something that started with Word 2007 SP2--it is no longer found with these parameters. This came as quite a surprise as several macros I use to find Style Separators just stopped working. Does anyone have an inside scoop into changes that may have been made recently to the behavior of the Find dialog with respect to Style Separator paragraphs? And if so, why the decision to make this change was made by Microsoft? Thanks As far as I can tell, nothing has changed in this regard between Word 2003 and Word 2007. If nonprinting characters (or just hidden text) are displayed, the search you described will find the style separator in either version. If nonprinting characters (or just hidden text) are not displayed, then the search finds nothing. In VBA code, you can find hidden characters including style separators by using the .Find member of a Range object instead of that of the Selection object, and setting the Range object's ..TextRetrievalMode.IncludeHiddenText property to True: Sub demo1() Dim oRg As Range Set oRg = Selection.Range oRg.End = ActiveDocument.Range.End oRg.TextRetrievalMode.IncludeHiddenText = True With oRg.Find .Format = True .Font.Hidden = True .Text = "^p" If .Execute Then ActiveWindow.View.ShowHiddenText = True oRg.Select End If End With End Sub The Range object is necessary because the Selection object doesn't have a .TextRetrievalMode member. Note that the .ShowHiddenText turns on the Hidden Text item in Office button Word Options Display, independently of the "Show all formatting marks" which is tied to the ¶ button on the ribbon -- but it will show all hidden text, not just the style separators. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. . |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separator
I have pasted your VBA code into my IDE and it just doesn't work for me .
Code aside, if you use the Find dialog in Word 2003 and you look for "^p" and Hidden do you find the style separators? And those exact steps in Word 2007 are they found? The thing that I just can't get my head around is I had rock solid code which I have been using to perform this operation for the last 5 years and it suddenly stopped working. I am beginning to believe this is related to my particular build of Word 2007 ~ I am using Word 2007 SP2. But for what it's worth, I tried the same steps in 2010 and it looks like we have the same problem. I can work around it, but it's an inconvenience and love to know Microsoft's reason for why it changed. |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separator
Jay's code works for me too.
As for searching for hidden text, the search function will only find hidden text where hidden text is displayed. This applies equally to Word 2003 and 2007. I don't recall this ever being different? -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "wordyOne" wrote in message ... I have pasted your VBA code into my IDE and it just doesn't work for me . Code aside, if you use the Find dialog in Word 2003 and you look for "^p" and Hidden do you find the style separators? And those exact steps in Word 2007 are they found? The thing that I just can't get my head around is I had rock solid code which I have been using to perform this operation for the last 5 years and it suddenly stopped working. I am beginning to believe this is related to my particular build of Word 2007 ~ I am using Word 2007 SP2. But for what it's worth, I tried the same steps in 2010 and it looks like we have the same problem. I can work around it, but it's an inconvenience and love to know Microsoft's reason for why it changed. |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separator
Hi Graham,
Could you try something for me, just as a quick test of the Find behavior in Word's front end? Maybe I'm imagining this but I'm pretty sure it's changed. In Word 2003, insert a Style Separator. Then (with Hidden text showing), use the Find dialog to search for "^p", along with Font = Hidden checked. And then using those same steps in a document you create in Word 2007 SP2, does the Find succeed? Thanks! PS - I noticed I somehow accidentally posted this to the DocManagement subgroup - obviously this is more of a general Word question. Sorry it is in the wrong place. |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separator
It is not found in either Word version unless hidden text is displayed.
-- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "wordyOne" wrote in message ... Hi Graham, Could you try something for me, just as a quick test of the Find behavior in Word's front end? Maybe I'm imagining this but I'm pretty sure it's changed. In Word 2003, insert a Style Separator. Then (with Hidden text showing), use the Find dialog to search for "^p", along with Font = Hidden checked. And then using those same steps in a document you create in Word 2007 SP2, does the Find succeed? Thanks! PS - I noticed I somehow accidentally posted this to the DocManagement subgroup - obviously this is more of a general Word question. Sorry it is in the wrong place. |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separato
I hear what you're saying and not to beat a dead horse, but did you literally
go though the following steps in Word 2007 SP2? 1. Go to Customize, add Style Separator command to your QAT (via the 'Commands Not In Ribbon' list) 2. Turn on viewing of hidden text. 3. Insert some text, and then add a style separator in the document. 4. Go to the top of the document. 5. Use the Find command (either through VBA or the Word UI - doesn't matter). Enter ^p for the text to find, and ensure that Format is set as Hidden. I have tried this on several different machines and the same result: It is not found. The exact same steps in Word 2003 have always worked: the style separator character is found. Am I seriously the only person who is experiencing this? |
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On Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:29:02 -0800, wordyOne
wrote: I hear what you're saying and not to beat a dead horse, but did you literally go though the following steps in Word 2007 SP2? 1. Go to Customize, add Style Separator command to your QAT (via the 'Commands Not In Ribbon' list) 2. Turn on viewing of hidden text. 3. Insert some text, and then add a style separator in the document. 4. Go to the top of the document. 5. Use the Find command (either through VBA or the Word UI - doesn't matter). Enter ^p for the text to find, and ensure that Format is set as Hidden. I have tried this on several different machines and the same result: It is not found. The exact same steps in Word 2003 have always worked: the style separator character is found. Am I seriously the only person who is experiencing this? Yes, I did literally go through those steps. The style separator was found in Word 2007 on two computers, one running Windows XP SP2 and the other running Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (although Office is installed there as a 32-bit application). Now I've had a chance to try it on a third computer, with Word 2007 running on Windows 7 32-bit, and the style separator is *not* found there. I don't know what causes the difference. Typically, oddities like this are caused by add-ins. The 32-bit computer doesn't have any add-ins that aren't on the 64-bit machine, and in fact the latter has more add-ins that aren't on the 32-bit machine. I'll get back to you if I find out anything else. -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. |
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Thank you so much for the time you spent looking at this. I was beginning to
think I was crazy. I did try this on a machine with no add-ins and still have the same result, so it is happening across the board on all Word 2007 SP2 PCs I've tested this on. It also is the case in the Word 2010 beta (at least, for me it is). I am beginning to wonder if it's related to one of the recent Windows Updates that may have impacted Office 2007. This may explain why some of us are seeing it and others are not. |
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Yes - I followed your instructions and as I said, it works when hidden text
is displayed, and not when it isn't. -- Graham Mayor - Word MVP My web site www.gmayor.com Word MVP web site http://word.mvps.org "wordyOne" wrote in message ... I hear what you're saying and not to beat a dead horse, but did you literally go though the following steps in Word 2007 SP2? 1. Go to Customize, add Style Separator command to your QAT (via the 'Commands Not In Ribbon' list) 2. Turn on viewing of hidden text. 3. Insert some text, and then add a style separator in the document. 4. Go to the top of the document. 5. Use the Find command (either through VBA or the Word UI - doesn't matter). Enter ^p for the text to find, and ensure that Format is set as Hidden. I have tried this on several different machines and the same result: It is not found. The exact same steps in Word 2003 have always worked: the style separator character is found. Am I seriously the only person who is experiencing this? |
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Word 2007's Find command no longer able to find Style Separator
Just to follow up, I have reported this problem to Microsoft, and it is
confirmed to be broken in the latest build(s) of Word and Word 2010. The issue has been passed on to the Word engineers. The reason that some people could not reproduce seems to be related to the build number of Word 2007. Earlier build numbers apparently do not exhibit the problem, so it might coincide with some recent Windows or Office SP2 updates. |
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