Styles and Formatting - Select All (Word 2003 SP2)

[StuartR]

If I turn off Tools > Options > Keep track of formatting then the Select All button on the Styles and Formatting pane is greyed out. This is a nuisance as that Select All button can be very useful, so I sometimes turn on Keep Track of Formatting for a moment, click the Select All button, and then turn the option back off again.

Ah, thinks Stuart, this is what Macros are for, I could record a Macro of me setting the option, clicking Select All, and clearing the option again. But, sadly, the Select All does not get recorded so I can't do that.

Any other suggestions of how to get the Select All functionality without having to permanently enable Keep Track of Formatting?

StuartR

[HansV]

Unfortunately, there is no support in the Word object model for creating and manipulating discontiguous selections: see INFO: Limited Programmatic Access to Word 2002 Discontiguous Selections (it hasn't changed in Word 2003).

But .., WordBasic to the rescue, of all things:

Options.FormatScanning = True
WordBasic.SelectSimilarFormatting
Options.FormatScanning = False

[StuartR]

Hans,

You never cease to amaze me - how on earth did you find that?

StuartR

[HansV]

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