7. Programming Word

In This Chapter

• Specifying, opening, creating, saving, and closing documents

• Using the Range object to work with text

• Using VBA to manipulate characters, words, sentences, and paragraphs

Microsoft Word is a large, complex program, so it will come as no surprise that its list of objects is equally as big and complicated. Fortunately, just as most people use only a tiny subset of Word's features, so too will you probably only use just a few of Word's objects in your VBA programming. In fact, with Word there are only really three levels of objects you'll need to worry about most of the time: Word itself, which is represented by the Application object; Word documents, which are represented by the Document object; and the ...

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