Re: Making text plain or bold in Word
Re: Making text plain or bold in Word
- Subject: Re: Making text plain or bold in Word
- From: David Wignall <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 12 Apr 2003 20:50:10 +1200
on 12/4/2003 6:31 PM, Paul Berkowitz at email@hidden wrote:
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On 4/11/03 10:37 PM, "David Wignall" <email@hidden> wrote:
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>> 'Words' in VB can consist just of
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>> tabs or other white space, and should be excluded.
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> Why do you feel the need to excluded spaces in this case Paul? The 'Word'
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> object is the equivalent of what you get by double clicking on a word in the
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> interface and AFAIK a space on its own will never be considered as a word.
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It was treating tabs as words but converting tabs to multiple spaces in
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Immediate Window when I tested. I thought I'd better play it safe just in
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case it also considered multiple spaces on their own to be words. case
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unproven either way so far.
Possibly because the immediate window and the VBE itself don't have a proper
tab as such?
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I was trying to find a shorter way. There is
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actually a foolproof way: Make a new style:
Now that's a very good thought and one that I'll steal :)
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As long as you're certain that those are the only type of white space to be
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considered words, sure. (Have you tried option-spaces?)
Actually, I have. I was thinking *emotionally* that a non-breaking space
links two words as one, but it seems the MS engineers are harder headed than
I. Probably for the best.
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> although I like Shane Stanley's solution more :)
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If it never crashes, sure.
There is that small detail to consider...
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Dave
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