I have written some code that searches a Word document for highlighted sections. Shown here:
using System;
using Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using Word = Microsoft.Office.Interop.Word;
using System.IO;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
namespace FindTest
{
class Program
{
static void parser(string docxFilename)
{
Word.Document thisDoc;
Word.ApplicationClass wordObject = new Word.ApplicationClass();
wordObject.Visible = false;
object file = docxFilename;
object objTrue = true;
object objFalse = false;
object missing = System.Type.Missing;
// open word document
thisDoc = wordObject.Documents.Open(ref file, ref missing, ref objTrue, ref missing,
ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing,
ref missing, ref objFalse, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
Range highRange = thisDoc.Range().Duplicate; // highlighted range
highRange.Find.Highlight = 1;
highRange.Find.Forward = true;
highRange.Find.Wrap = WdFindWrap.wdFindStop;
object replace = Word.WdReplace.wdReplaceNone;
bool result;
object str = "";
result = highRange.Find.Execute(ref str, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref objTrue, ref missing, ref objTrue, ref str, ref replace, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
while (result == true)
{
Console.WriteLine(highRange.Text.Trim());
result = highRange.Find.Execute(ref str, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref objTrue, ref missing, ref objTrue, ref str, ref replace, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing, ref missing);
}
thisDoc.Close(ref objFalse, ref missing, ref missing);
wordObject.Quit(ref objFalse, ref missing, ref missing);
return;
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
parser(@"C:\Some\Document.docx");
Console.ReadLine();
}
}
}
This code works fine until it encounters a highlighted table caption. I can't post images or links (but I have uploaded a screenshot of my example document to the forum server and it is file 1122284 if that helps). Basically, there are three tables in the
document and the first two have captions. The first table's caption is "Table 1 - Table Caption" and the second table's caption is "Table 2 - Another table caption." but the trailing period is not highlighted.
This is my output I get from my application:
Table 1 - Table Captio
n
Some normal text
Centered Text
Table 2 - Another table captio
n
Not actually a caption
So you can see, a table caption that is highlighted is split into two matches: (1) everything except the last highlighted character and (2) the last highlighted character. Note that the last highlighted character does not have to be the last caption character.
Note also that Word's Advanced Find exhibits the same behavior as the C# code.
I just discovered that when searching backwards rather than forwards, this issue no longer manifests.
Is this expected? Is there a workaround?
