Change style of portion of paragraph

Italophile · #1 05-05-2023, 11:52 AM

Although you may think linked styles to be cumbersome, this is precisely the use case that they were designed for.

As their name suggests, linked styles consist of two separate styles - a paragraph style and a character style with the same name plus the suffix " Char". When a linked style is applied via the UI Word decides which style to apply dependent on context.

When applied via VBA it is up to you to decide which style to apply.

To apply a heading style to the entire paragraph you can either use the name:

Code:

Selection.Range.Style = "Heading 2"

or, especially valuable if the user's OS language isn't English, the enum:

Code:

Selection.Range.Style = wdStyleHeading2

To apply the character style you can either use the name directly:

Code:

Selection.Range.Style = "Heading 2 Char"

or construct the name:

Code:

Selection.Range.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles(wdStyleHeading2).NameLocal & " Char"

tanko · #2 05-05-2023, 01:37 PM

Bingo, that's it, thanks! Interesting how Word decides to apply char or para style based on user behavior. Makes sense.

And to be clear, I don't find the linked styles cumbersome, I find manually applying two styles to each paragraph to be cumbersome. My code now eliminates at least one step of that.

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