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Hi Alan,

If you use a Range object instead of the Selection, as in the demo() sample in
the posts you pointed to, then the screen won't jump at all. The problem you're
having is largely that the macro recorder always uses the Selection -- one of
its more serious drawbacks.

On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 17:28:04 -0800, Alan Stancliff
wrote:

>Hi Jay,
>
>Yes, I was hoping to avoid the screen from jumping around during the
>performance of this task. I actually got the idea for the question by
>studying an exchange of messages we had last month, which you can refer
>to here:
>
>Browser link:
>http://www.microsoft.com/communities/newsgroups/en-us/default.aspx?dg=microsoft.public.word.vba.general&tid=0e7336bb-59cf-4e33-99c8-c431abd8ef12&cat=en_US_eb67b351-9403-4888-a42c-b2b58efec0aa&lang=en&cr=US&sloc=en-us&m=1&p=1
>
>Newsreader link:
>news://msnews.microsoft.com:119/0E7336BB-59CF-4E33-99C8-C431ABD8EF12@microsoft.com
>
>Regards,
>
>Alan Stancliff
>
>
>Jay Freedman wrote:
>> My 2 cents... While Tony's answer is correct, using the search function is MUCH
>> faster and easier than any other method. If you can think of a good reason not
>> to use it, I'd like to hear about it.
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:00:13 -0000, "Tony Jollans" >> dot com> wrote:
>>
>>> Without using (built-in) search functionality you will have to write your
>>> own - checking each paragraph (using any algorithm you like) until you
>>> identify the one you want.
>>>
>>> Having identified the paragraph you can scan it and move the selection
>>> within it using Selection.MoveUntil and Selection.MoveEndUntil and other
>>> similar methods.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Enjoy,
>>> Tony
>>>
>>> "Alan Stancliff" wrote in message
>>> news:eDX4fgZeIHA.5400@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
>>>> Here's a Word 2003 VBA question about RANGEs that's been driving me nuts
>>>> for a while.
>>>>
>>>> Supposing I have a document that somewhere has the following on a line by
>>>> itself, effectively being a paragraph:
>>>>
>>>> **********
>>>> (A) MY SAMPLE WORDS TO SELECT: Hello World
>>>>
>>>> and later on it has a line that has
>>>>
>>>> (B) MY OTHER SAMPLE WORDS TO SELECT: Hello Universe, So Vast Thou Art.
>>>> *********
>>>>
>>>> Without using the search functionality, how would one code to do the
>>>> following three tasks:
>>>> 1. Select the the stuff following the colon and two spaces in sample (A),
>>>> whatever it may be (in this case, "Hello World")
>>>>
>>>> 2. Select the stuff before the comma in my example (B), whatever it may be
>>>> (in this case it is Hello Universe)
>>>>
>>>> 3 Select the stuff between the comma and end of the line (in this case, it
>>>> is "So Vast Thou Art").
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>>
>>>> Alan
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Jay Freedman
>> Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org
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