Word 2007 Find Parameters

[Mark Wilson]

In word 2007 the Find command has options "Ignore punctuation characters" and
"Ignore white-space characters". I'd like to be able to use the Word Object
Model to search a Range in a document for a text string and ignore any white
space characters. However, I can't seem to find any parameters for the
Execute method that will enable this option. How can I accomplish this
programmatically?

I can paste my own text into the document, but occasionally Word reformats
the text changing some spaces to non-breaking spaces or putting a space
before a CR/LF at the end of a line. I need to search for the text inserted
and remove it, but the Find command fails because Word has modified the
inserted text.

 

[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Mark,

In Word Object Model, there is no method and option to use the ignore white
space characters.

I am performing some research on the workaround, I appreciated your
patience.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu

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[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Mark,

I found that the Find.IgnoreSpace property is which you are looking for.

Please have a try and let me know the result.

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Wei Lu
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[Mark Wilson]

Thanks Wei.

I think my problem was that I was searching for answers in the MSDN library.
After reading your last note I used the Object Browser in Word 2007 and
found an Execute2007 method. It has 5 more parameters than Execute.

MatchPrefix
MatchSuffix
MatchPhrase
IgnoreSpace
IgnorePunct

That will probably solve the problem once I get the Word Object Library
imported. I'll explain the errors in my next message.

 

[Mark Wilson]

I'm programming my COM Addin in C++ and I need to import the Word 2007 OLB.
[I had previously imported the Word 2000 OLB without any problems]. However
I seem to be getting errors as follows:


msword.tlh(20906) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
identifier 'VBE'

msword.tlh(20906) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note:
C++ does not support default-int

msword.tlh(21103) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
identifier 'GetVBE'

msword.tlh(21103) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note:
C++ does not support default-int

msword.tlh(21103) : warning C4183: 'GetVBE': missing return type; assumed to
be a member function returning 'int'

msword.tlh(22289) : error C2146: syntax error : missing ';' before
identifier 'VBE'

msword.tlh(22289) : error C4430: missing type specifier - int assumed. Note:
C++ does not support default-int

msword.tlh(22289) : error C2208: 'Word::VBE' : no members defined using this
type


My import looks like this:

#import "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\mso.dll" \
rename_namespace("Office"), rename("DocumentProperties", "DocProps")
rename("RGB", "RGB_")

#import "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSWORD.OLB" \
rename("ExitWindows", "WordExitWindows") rename("FindText", "WordFindText")

#import "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA6\VBE6EXT.OLB"

#import "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSOUTL.OLB" \
rename_namespace("Outlook"), rename("CopyFile", "CopyFile_")
rename("PlaySound", "PlaySound_")

Is there a specifc order that should be used for importing the files ?

Any idea what I might have done wrong?

Thanks.

 

[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello

My suggestion is import the lib not the olb directly.

You could use like following:

#import "libid:AC0714F2-3D04-11D1-AE7D-00A0C90F26F4" version("1.0")
lcid("0") raw_interfaces_only named_guids
//The following #import imports the MSO interface based on it's LIBID
#import "libid:2DF8D04C-5BFA-101B-BDE5-00AA0044DE52" version("2.4")
lcid("0") raw_interfaces_only named_guids auto_rename

Please refer this article:

http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.office.developer.com.add_ins
/browse_thread/thread/543251ea1a391846/ea65f0e8422316b7?lnk=st&q=%22%23impor
t%22+%22v-phuang%22+libid&rnum=1&hl=en#ea65f0e8422316b7

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
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[Mark Wilson]

Thanks Wei.

I'll give that a try. However, just to answer my previous question I did
get the code to compile with this:

#import "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\OFFICE12\mso.dll" \
rename("RGB", "RGB_")
using namespace Office;
#import "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\VBA\VBA6\VBE6EXT.OLB"
#import "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSWORD.OLB" \
rename("ExitWindows", "WordExitWindows")
#import "C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office12\MSOUTL.OLB" \
rename("CopyFile", "CopyFile_")

 

[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Mark,

Thanks for the update.

The issue is related with the conflict with the object in the import dll.

If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
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[Mark Wilson]

Wei, I'm still having problems with Find and IgnoreSpace.

From the Word 2007 Object Browser I see

Function Execute2007([FindText], [MatchCase], [MatchWholeWord],
[MatchWildcards], [MatchSoundsLike], [MatchAllWordForms],
[Forward], [Wrap], [Format], [ReplaceWith], [Replace],
[MatchKashida], [MatchDiacritics], [MatchAlefHamza],
[MatchControl], [MatchPrefix], [MatchSuffix], [MatchPhrase],
[IgnoreSpace], [IgnorePunct]) As Boolean
Member of Word.Find

I have set all variables to VT_ERROR except for

vtFindText.vt = VT_BSTR;
vtFindText.bstrVal = ::SysAllocString(L"Test");

vtForward.vt = VT_BOOL;
vtForward.boolVal = FALSE;



This runs without error. However when I try to use IgnoreSpace
I set it as follows:

vtIgnoreSpace.vt = VT_BOOL;
vtIgnoreSpace.boolVal = TRUE;

At run time Execute2007 fails with code 0x80020008 (Bad variable type)

If I set the values as follows:

vtIgnoreSpace.vt = VT_ERROR;
vtIgnoreSpace.scode = DISP_E_PARAMNOTFOUND;

It does not cause an error.

If not VT_BOOL, what should IgnoreSpace be?

 

[Luke Zhang [MSFT]]

Hi Mark,

There is few document about the Execute2007 method now. Have you tried set
the IgnoreSpace property of Find object and use its Execute method?

Sincerely,

Luke Zhang

Microsoft Online Community Support
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[Mark Wilson]

Luke, that fixed it.

If I set the IgnoreSpace property of Find object and use its Execute method
instead of using Execute2007 it does not crash.

Thanks.