detect text that has been deleted (Word 2003)

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I’m writing a macro that finds all instances of some text, then deletes the entire row containing it. I’d like to detect whether the selection or the range that is found has already been deleted.

Currently I just turn off display of tracked changes temporarily to avoid the problems that come with the macro finding the already-deleted instance in an infinite loop. But if there’s a way to detect deletion, please let me know for future use.

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You could inspect the following properties of the range where it’s found (use Selection.Range if you’re working with Selection.Find):

.Revisions.Count should be 1, i.e. the range should contain just one revision, not a mixture.
.Revisions(1).Type should be wdRevisionDelete.

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Thanks. I searched but didn’t find the Revisions property.

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Revisions is a property of the Document and Range objects: see Revisions Property, Revisions Collection Object and Revision Object.

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