I am finding a starting and ending character within a Word paragraph, but for the life of me, cannot determine how to set a range that includes those characters. Here is an excerpt of what I have:
Set rngTemp = w.Paragraphs(i).Range
For iCounter = 1 To rngTemp.Characters.Count
If rngTemp.Characters(iCounter).HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow Then
lStartPos = iCounter
While rngTemp.Characters(iCounter).HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
iCounter = iCounter + 1
Wend
lEndPos = iCounter
Using the values for the starting and ending characters, how do I set a range that contains that string? I have made a number of attempts, but all unsuccessful.
The instruction on Microsoft's "Working with Ranges" page have the following code:
Set rngDoc = ActiveDocument.Range(Start:=0, End:=10)
I receive no errors in the first line of my sample ("Set rngTemp ..."), which seems to be very comparable to Microsoft's sample. But when I try:
Set r = w.Paragraphs(i).Range(Start:=lStartPos, End:=lEndPos)
I get the "Compile Error: Wrong number of arguments or invalid property assignment"
I thought I had found the answer with this code:
Set r = w.Range(w.Paragraphs(i).Range.Characters(lStartPos).Start, _
w.Paragraphs(i).Range.Characters(lEndPos).End)
but it still produced an error. In the immediate window, I pasted the code from each line and the numbers showed up for each. Then I changed the set statement to use the actual numbers, and that worked. For some reason, VBA does not like to allow the numbers from the code immediately above to work in setting the range variable. I changed the original code (from the top) to this:
Set rngTemp = w.Paragraphs(i).Range
For iCounter = 1 To rngTemp.Characters.Count
If rngTemp.Characters(iCounter).HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow Then
'lStartPos = iCounter
lStartPos = w.Paragraphs(i).Range.Characters(iCounter).Start
While rngTemp.Characters(iCounter).HighlightColorIndex = wdYellow
iCounter = iCounter + 1
Wend
'lEndPos = iCounter
lEndPos = w.Paragraphs(i).Range.Characters(iCounter).End
Set r = w.Range(lStartPos, lEndPos)
and it worked.
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