StoryRanges Collection Object (Word)
A collection of Range objects that represent stories in a document.
Remarks
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 aStory
The Add method is not 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).Text
The 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 If
If you attempt to return a story that is not available in the specified document, an error occurs. The following example determines whether 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 is 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