GoToPrevious Method

GoToPrevious method as it applies to the Range and Selection objects.

Returns a Range object that refers to the start position of the previous item or location specified by the What argument. If applied to a Selection object, GoToPrevious moves the selection to the specified item. Range object.

expression.GoToPrevious(What)

expression Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

WdGoToItem

WdGoToItem can be one of these WdGoToItem constants.
wdGoToComment
wdGoToEquation
wdGoToFootnote
wdGoToGraphic
wdGoToLine
wdGoToPage
wdGoToProofreadingError
wdGoToSpellingError
wdGoToBookmark
wdGoToEndnote
wdGoToField
wdGoToGrammaticalError
wdGoToHeading
wdGoToObject
wdGoToPercent
wdGoToSection
wdGoToTable

GoToPrevious method as it applies to the MailMessage object.

Displays the previous mail message if you are using Word as your e-mail editor.

expression.GoToPrevious

expression Required. An expression that returns one of the above objects.

Example

This example moves to the previous field in the active document.

Selection.GoToPrevious What:=wdGoToField

This example creates a range that references the last footnote reference marker in the active document.

Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Words.Last _
    .GoToPrevious(What:=wdGoToFootnote)
myRange.Expand Unit:=wdCharacter

Applies to | MailMessage Object | Range Object | Selection Object

See Also | GoTo Method | GoToNext Method | PreviousField Method | PreviousSubdocument Method | Target Property