Expand Method

  • Article

Expands the specified range or selection. Returns the number of characters added to the range or selection. Long

expression**.Expand(Unit)**

expression   Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

WdUnits

    Can be one of the following WdUnits constants:

    wdCharacter

    wdWord

    wdSentence

    wdParagraph

    wdSection

    wdStory

    wdCell

    wdColumn

    wdRow

    wdTable.

If expression represents a Selection object, wdLine can also be used. The default value is wdWord.

Example

This example creates a range that refers to the first word in the active document, and then it expands the range to reference the first paragraph in the document.

  Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Words(1)
myRange.Expand Unit:=wdParagraph

This example capitalizes the first character in the selection and then expands the selection to include the entire sentence.

  With Selection
    .Characters(1).Case = wdTitleSentence
    .Expand Unit:=wdSentence
End With