Simple VBA Range Question (Office/VBA 2003)

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Hi, all. Can someone explain to me (in clearer terms that found in the Help files) why I can use the Start and End properties when setting a range relative to the ActiveDocument.Range object, but I cannot do the same with an individual paragraph? In other words, why does it seem I must use two lines of code (Set myRange = overlylarge_range then myRange.SetRange fromHere, toHere) to set the desired range to part of a paragraph’s range, but only one line would be needed to do the same with the ActivedDocument.Range (e.g. Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Range(fromHere, toHere).

I realize I may simply be missing something, but I’d love to know what it might be!

Thanks in advance…

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Range is – confusingly – both an property and a method in the Word object model (and an object, of course).

Range(start, end) is a method of the Document object, but not of the Selection or Paragraph object. Both the Range method of the Document object and the SetRange method of the Range and Selection objects use start and end as absolute positions within the document, never as relative to another range.

Example:

Dim rng As Range
Set rng = ActiveDocument.Range(100, 120) ‘ rng extends from character 101 to 120 in the document
rng.SetRange 10, 15 ‘ rng extends from character 11 to 15 in the document

The last instruction moves rng completely outside the original range.

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As ever, Hans, thanks for your wisdom and patience.

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