I am about my wits end trying to deal with the Range object, so
hopefully someone can help me with my dilemma.

I am building a project which scours a Word document for various tags.
An example of a tag would be: [~ItemText~]. After the Tag is some text
that the user fills in and esentially becomes the value of the tag.
Example:
-[~ItemText~]Why did the chicken cross the road?-

What I have done in my code is move the starting and ending points of
the document range to get the tag name and then the tag value. After
it finds a match, it moves on, etc... This part is no problem and it
works just fine.

Certain tag values have to have formatting placed on them based on what
the user types in. So if the user types "My name is Fred", and Fred is
in Bold Text, my value has to read "My name is bFred/b. I can do
formatting properly. My function does this just fine, see below for the
problem.

My dilemma is this though: As I pass my tag value range into my
function that does the formatting, it continues to format the entire
document past the Range.End mark. not just the 25 or so characters I
set for the range. Here is another example to clarify:

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Rng.Text="My name is Fred"
Rng.Start=1
Rng.End=15

I pass the range (Rng) to the Function for formatting and I get my
desired results, but it goes beyond the Rng.End and continues to format
anything else that may be bolded. I only need it to format the text of
the range that I send it.

--------------------------------------------

I have tried using the Range.Duplicate Property, but that didn't seem
to help. Perhaps I was using it incorrectly though.

I have tried just passing the Rng.Text as a String and returning that,
but the same results are occurring.

Can anyone assist me with this issue?

Thanks in advance.


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I am about my wits end trying to deal with the Range object, so
hopefully someone can help me with my dilemma.

I am building a project which scours a Word document for various tags.
An example of a tag would be: [~ItemText~]. After the Tag is some text
that the user fills in and esentially becomes the value of the tag.
Example:
-[~ItemText~]Why did the chicken cross the road?-

What I have done in my code is move the starting and ending points of
the document range to get the tag name and then the tag value. After
it finds a match, it moves on, etc... This part is no problem and it
works just fine.

Certain tag values have to have formatting placed on them based on what
the user types in. So if the user types "My name is Fred", and Fred is
in Bold Text, my value has to read "My name is bFred/b. I can do
formatting properly. My function does this just fine, see below for the
problem.

My dilemma is this though: As I pass my tag value range into my
function that does the formatting, it continues to format the entire
document past the Range.End mark. not just the 25 or so characters I
set for the range. Here is another example to clarify:

--------------------------------------------

Rng.Text="My name is Fred"
Rng.Start=1
Rng.End=15

I pass the range (Rng) to the Function for formatting and I get my
desired results, but it goes beyond the Rng.End and continues to format
anything else that may be bolded. I only need it to format the text of
the range that I send it.

--------------------------------------------

I have tried using the Range.Duplicate Property, but that didn't seem
to help. Perhaps I was using it incorrectly though.

I have tried just passing the Rng.Text as a String and returning that,
but the same results are occurring.

Can anyone assist me with this issue?

Thanks in advance.


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Hi Disastor,

My dilemma is this though: As I pass my tag value range into my
function that does the formatting, it continues to format the entire
document past the Range.End mark. not just the 25 or so characters I
set for the range. Here is another example to clarify:

--------------------------------------------

Rng.Text="My name is Fred"
Rng.Start=1
Rng.End=15

Unfortunately, you don't show use the part that does the formatting...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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