I'm comparing the content of two ranges in Word like this:

If range1.Text = range2.Text Then
...


EndIf

This works fine for actual content, but I would like to include text formatting into the comparrison as well. So if I have two ranges with the same text, BUT the text in range1 is bold, I would like the comparrison to return false.

Any ideas?

Thanks

If you can rely on the correct use of Styles for the formatting, it simply becomes a matter of checking whether the same style names are used for the same ranges.

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Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]

Hi Paul
Thank you for your reply.
I’m sorry I wasn’t very specific in my question.
I would love to have an easy way to test for formatting changes without doing a specific test for every possible formatting element (font changes, highlighting, text effects, styles, …)
What I am looking for is a property (on the Range object) like the Text-property BUT it should also include formatting information. I was happy when I found out that the Range object actually has a property called FormattedText. When I read about it in the documentation, it sounds to me that this was what I was looking for, so instead of doing the test:
I changed the test to:
But as I see it, the FormattedText.Text property contains the exact same information as the Text property on the Range object (no formatting information).
Can you – or someone else – explain me what I am able to do with the FormattedText-property on the Range object? Or are you aware of some other functionality that can help me?
Thanks ;-)

Unless you can rely on Style-based comparisons (ie whatever formatting is used in the document relies entirely on the use of Styles), you will have to test every attribute individually. If you can rely on the use of Styles, it then becomes a matter of testing which Styles have been used, and where.

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Cheers,
Paul Edstein
[Fmr MS MVP - Word]