Storing Values From within find

Hi,

I was just wondering if there is a way to store a valur that turns up within
Selection.Find.Text

Consider the following code

VB Code:

Sub style_tag()
  Selection.Find.ClearFormatting
    Selection.Find.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles("H1")
    Selection.Find.Replacement.ClearFormatting
    With Selection.Find
        .Text = ""
        .Replacement.Text = "^&" 
        .Replacement.Font.Color = wdColorBlue
        .Forward = True
        .Wrap = wdFindContinue
        .Format = True
        .MatchCase = False
        .MatchWholeWord = False
        .MatchWildcards = False
        .MatchSoundsLike = False
        .MatchAllWordForms = False
    End With
    Selection.Find.Execute Replace:=wdReplaceAll
    Selection.EscapeKey
End Sub

Now the above code finds where the style name H1 has been applied and highlights the selected text to blue.

Is there a way in which i can store the resultant text in a variable?

Example: if the style h1 is applied to a word "Chapter 1" then this code searches h1 style and highlights "Chapter 1" to blue. Is there a way in which i can store the highlighted text in a variable?

This is jsut an educated guess, but shouldnt be far wrong:

VB Code:

MyVariable = Selection.Text

Quote:

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MyVariable = Selection.Text

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This just stores the text in which the cursor is positioned

Where in your code did you place it? I think it would work if placed just before/after "Selection.EscapeKey". (if not, you may need to find & store before replacing).

Note that it will only find the last value changed, as you are replacing all instances in one go - to get all of them you would need to replace just one at a time.