maintaining the formatting of a string

[Larry]

I used to know this but forget--If a text selection has character
formatting such as underlining, and I'm turning the selection into a
string and then inserting that string elsewhere, how do I maintain the
formatting of the string?

 

[Jay Freedman]

I used to know this but forget--If a text selection has character
formatting such as underlining, and I'm turning the selection into a
string and then inserting that string elsewhere, how do I maintain the
formatting of the string?

If you turn it into a string, you *will* lose all formatting, because a
string has no place to store format information -- it's just a list of
character codes.

To preserve formatting, you can define a range for the destination, and
assign the source range to the .FormattedText property of the destination:

DestRg.FormattedText = Selection.Range

or, if you have a Range object SourceRg instead of the Selection,

DestRg.FormattedText = SourceRg

Look up the FormattedText property in the VBA help.

 

[Doug Robbins]

ActiveDocument.Bookmarks("InsertHere").Range.FormattedText =
Selection.Range.FormattedText

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Hope this helps.

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services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Larry]

Thank you, Doug and Jay! Just what I needed.

Larry