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Selection.Flags property (Word)

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Returns or sets properties of the selection. Read/write WdSelectionFlags.

Syntax

expression.Flags

expression Required. An expression that returns a Selection object.

Remark

Once set this value, it will be stored with MS Word itself, which means when you next time start MS Word, the Selection objects' behavior will be the previous setting. So if you set this value to 8 or 9, the next time you will not be able to replace the selected range when you add or type the new one. That is, for example, when "hello" is selected and type "world" on the selected range, It will be inserted before the "hello" and not replace "hello" with "world". You have to reset this value to 24 or 25 to restore the default behavior about Selection objects. The value of this property 24 should be the sum of the wdSelActive and wdSelReplace and 25 = 24 + 1 should be plus the wdSelStartActive after. And 8 or 9 is without the value wdSelReplace, so when without wdSelReplace setting in this, it will not allow to replace the selected range.

Example

This example selects the first word in the active document. The first message box displays "False" because the end of the selection is active. The Flags property makes the beginning of the selection active, and the second message box displays "True."

ActiveDocument.Words(1).Select 
MsgBox Selection.StartIsActive 
Selection.Flags = wdSelStartActive 
MsgBox Selection.StartIsActive

This example turns on overtype mode for the selection.

Selection.Flags = wdSelOvertype

See also

Selection Object

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