Find "Previous" or "Backwards"

[Fred Holmes]

Word 2003. Windows XP

The Word find dialog only has "Find Next". There doesn't seem to be
any way to "Find Prvious" or whatever command to search/find backwards
through the document.

Is there any way to do this with some VBA code? It should be hooked
to the current Find process. I.E. One Keyboard shortcut would "find
next" and another would "find previous."

I'm looking for a way to go directly back to the prior hit, or second
prior hit, but then proceed forward again. A locked loop to go
through the entired document in the bacwards direction only isn't
really helpful.

Thanks for any help.

Fred Holmes

 

[Dave Lett]

Hi Fred,

Well, there is a "previous".

With Selection.Find
.Text = "Test"
.Forward = False
.Execute
End With

If, however, you've already run your first find operation, you can use

Application.Browser.Next
and
Application.Browser.Previous

HTH,
Dave

Selection.Browser.Next