WD97: Returning Object Counts for Parts of a Document (162528)

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Method 1: To Return a Count of Objects for an Entire Document

To return a count of objects for an entire document including those contained in headers, footers, comments, endnotes, footnotes and text frames use the StoryRanges Collection object.

A Story object is contained within the Story Collection. Members of the Story collection are

• The Main Text or Body of a Document
• First Page Header
• First Page Footer
• Primary Header
• Primary Footer
• Even Pages Headers
• Even Pages Footers
• Comments
• EndNotes
• Footnotes
• Text Frames

For example, to count the number of fields in all stories of a document, use the following example:

   Sub CountAllFields()
      Dim iCount As Integer
      Dim aStory As Range
      For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
         iCount = iCount + aStory.Fields.Count
      Next
      MsgBox iCount
   End Sub
				

To count the number of Shapes(Drawing Objects) in all stories of a document, use the following example:

   Sub CountAllShapes()
      Dim iCount As Integer
      Dim aStory As Range
      For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
         iCount = iCount + aStory.Application.ActiveDocument.Shapes.Count
      Next
      MsgBox iCount
   End Sub
				

To count the number of Hyperlinks in all stories of a document, use the following example:

   Sub CountAllHyperLinks()
      Dim iCount As Integer
      Dim aStory As Range
      For Each aStory In ActiveDocument.StoryRanges
         iCount = iCount + _
         aStory.Application.ActiveDocument.Hyperlinks.Count
      Next
      MsgBox iCount
   End Sub
				

Method 2: To Return a Count of Objects for Part of a Document

To return a count of items for a single member of the StoryRange, specify a member of the story range with a wdStoryType constant.

In this example, the wdMainTextStory constant is used in conjunction with the Paragraphs collection to return the count of paragraphs in the main text or body of a document:

   Sub CountParagraphs()
      With ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory)
         MsgBox .Paragraphs.Count
      End With
   End Sub
				

In this example, the wdMainTextStory constant is used in conjunction with the Sentences Collection to return the count of sentences in the main body of a document:

   Sub CountSentencesInMainDocBody()
      With ActiveDocument.StoryRanges(wdMainTextStory)
         MsgBox .Sentences.Count
      End With
   End Sub
				

For more information about StoryRanges, from the Visual Basic Editor, click the Office Assistant, type StoryRanges click Search, and then click to view "StoryRanges."

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