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Re: Making text plain or bold in Word
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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:

> On 4/11/03 10:37 PM, "David Wignall" <email@hidden> wrote:

<snip>

>>> 'Words' in VB can consist just of
>>> tabs or other white space, and should be excluded.
>>
>> Why do you feel the need to excluded spaces in this case Paul? The 'Word'
>> object is the equivalent of what you get by double clicking on a word in the
>> interface and AFAIK a space on its own will never be considered as a word.
>
> It was treating tabs as words but converting tabs to multiple spaces in
> Immediate Window when I tested. I thought I'd better play it safe just in
> case it also considered multiple spaces on their own to be words. case
> unproven either way so far.

Possibly because the immediate window and the VBE itself don't have a proper
tab as such?

> I was trying to find a shorter way. There is
> actually a foolproof way: Make a new style:

Now that's a very good thought and one that I'll steal :)

> As long as you're certain that those are the only type of white space to be
> 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.

>> although I like Shane Stanley's solution more :)
>
> If it never crashes, sure.

There is that small detail to consider...

--
Dave
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