How to remove a Word.Selection?

Question

In the context of an Outlook add-on using the WordEditor from the Outlook.Inspector I would like to remove the selection after replacing it with a custom text.

For example, if I select something I can change the selection to a custom text as follows:

Word.Selection sel = doc.Windows[1].Selection;
Word.Range range = sel.Range;

    if(sel.Text.Length == 0) {
        MessageBox.Show("No Text is selected");

        return;
    }

sel.Text = "New Text";
sel.Collapse();

If I call this function again, now sel.Text.Length is equal to 1 instead of 0.

I'm not 100% familiar, but is `doc.Windows[1].Selection` only readable or assignable too? It may make sense to re-assign it after you're done your edits. — Brad Christie, Jul 18 '11 at 17:54
Only readable/getter: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/microsoft.office.interop.word.window.selection.aspx — Baadal Gupta, Jul 18 '11 at 19:34
Seems like comparing if sel.Range.Start == sel.Range.End does the trick? — Baadal Gupta, Jul 18 '11 at 21:22

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 19 '11 at 09:05

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I had the same problem in MS Word. Word has a method called Selection.Move(). If you use it it will deselect the selected text and place the cursor at the end of the selected text. For example you can use

ThisAddIn.Application.Selection.Move()

This works in a Word add in if you want to deselect selected text, it may work in Outlook too, try and let me know

answered Jul 19 '11 at 09:05

Hüseyin DEMİRTAŞ

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Sadly it doesn't work in Outlook the selection length remains in 1. – Baadal Gupta Jul 19 '11 at 15:29

collapsar · Answer 2 · 2012-10-24T12:15:08.780

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You might wish to try

Selection.Collapse Direction := wdCollapseStart

This will set the start and end positions of the current selection to the same value, namely the start of the current selection (specify wdCollapseEnd instead for the end of the current selection). The result should be programmatically indistinguishable from actually deleting a selection.

hope this helps, carsten

applies to: word 2007 (tested), word 2010; possibly other releases

edited Oct 24 '12 at 12:15

answered Oct 24 '12 at 11:08

collapsar

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In .net it is msWord.Selection.Collapse(Direction:=Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word.WdCollapseDirection.wdCollapseStart) – Rob Nov 13 '16 at 15:25

How to remove a Word.Selection?

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