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Access paths:
▪Application à Documents à Item à Paragraphs
▪Application à ActiveDocument à Paragraphs
1 Description
Paragraphs is a collection of all paragraphs in a document. The individual elements of this collection are of the type Paragraph.
2 Access to the collection
Each open document has exactly one instance of the Paragraphs collection. It is accessed through Document.Paragraphs:
' Show the number of paragraphs in the current document
MsgBox tm.ActiveDocument.Paragraphs.Count
3 Properties, objects, collections and methods
Properties:
▪Count R/O
Objects:
▪Item → Paragraph (default object)
▪Application → Application
▪Parent → Document
Count (property, R/O)
Data type: Long
Returns the number of Paragraph objects in the document – in other words: the number of paragraphs in the document.
Item (pointer to object)
Data type: Object
Returns an individual Paragraph object, i.e. an individual paragraph.
Which Paragraph object you get depends on the numeric value that you pass to Item: 1 for the first paragraph in the document, 2 for the second, etc.
Application (pointer to object)
Data type: Object
Returns the Application object.
Parent (pointer to object)
Data type: Object
Returns the parent object, i.e. an object of the type Document.