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StoryRanges Collection Object

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Documents (Document)
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A collection of Range objects that represent stories in a document.Use the StoryRanges property to return the StoryRanges collection. The following example removes manual character formatting from the text in all stories other than the main text story in the active document.For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges     If aStory.StoryType <> wdMainTextStory Then aStory.Font.Reset Next aStoryThe Add method isn't available for the StoryRanges collection. The number of stories in the StoryRanges collection is finite.Use StoryRanges(index), where index is a WdStoryType constant, to return a single story as a Range object. The following example adds text to the primary header story and then displays the text.ActiveDocument.Sections(1).Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range _     .Text = "Header text" MsgBox ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdPrimaryHeaderStory).TextThe following example copies the text of the footnotes from the active document into a new document.If ActiveDocument.Footnotes.Count >= 1 Then     ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdFootnotesStory).Copy     Documents.Add.Content.Paste End IfIf you attempt to return a story that isn't available in the specified document, an error occurs. The following example determines whether or not a footnote story is available in the active document.On Error GoTo errhandler Set MyRange = ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdFootnotesStory) errhandler: If Err = 5941 Then MsgBox "The footnotes story is not available."Use the NextStoryRange property to loop through all stories in a document. The following example searches each story in the active document for the text "Microsoft Word." When the text is found, it's formatted as italic.For Each myStoryRange In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges     myStoryRange.Find.Execute _         FindText:="Microsoft Word", Forward:=True     While myStoryRange.Find.Found         myStoryRange.Italic = True         myStoryRange.Find.Execute _             FindText:="Microsoft Word", Forward:=True     Wend     While Not (myStoryRange.NextStoryRange Is Nothing)         Set myStoryRange = myStoryRange.NextStoryRange         myStoryRange.Find.Execute _             FindText:="Microsoft Word", Forward:=True         While myStoryRange.Find.Found             myStoryRange.Italic = True             myStoryRange.Find.Execute _                 FindText:="Microsoft Word", Forward:=True         Wend     Wend Next myStoryRange

Using the StoryRanges Collection

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