How to highlight all occurrences of a word in a Word document??

[fiaolle]

Hi I want to highlight or more like select all the occurrences of a word. But I have googled a lot and haven't found anything about that. When I have tried, it just selects one appearance of the word, the last.

Word.Application ap = new Word.Application();
doc = ap.Documents.Open(path, ReadOnly: false, Visible: true);
ap.Selection.Find.ClearFormatting();
ap.Selection.Find.Text = txtFind.Text;
ap.Selection.Find.Execute();
while (ap.Selection.Find.Found)
{
ap.Selection.Select();
ap.Selection.Find.Execute();
}
doc.Activate();
ap.Visible = true;
ap.ActiveWindow.SetFocus();

I have tried so many different approaches, but haven't been able to solve it. I don't want to highlight the words, I just want them to be selected as they are when you choose find all in Microft Word. Hope somebody can help me. Many thanks Fia

[Pete OHanlon]

You are missing some properties for your Selection.Find list. Try setting Forward = true and Wrap = wdFindContinue. To find these values, you can use the macro recorder in Word and perform a Find all operation - this should give you a good place to start.

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[fiaolle]

Hi Thanks for your reply, but I have already tried that, but nothing changes. It just selects the last occurrence of the word. I really don't want to use a macro. Aren't there another way to accomplish this. Many thanks Fia

[Pete OHanlon]

Use the macro to tell you what options to set, not to actually run the find.

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[fiaolle]

Hi Thank you, that was smart. But when I record a macro that does what I want and later tries to run the macro nothing happens. I don't understand why? Do you have anymore suggestions. Many thanks Fia

[jschell]

Repeating what was already said.... 1. Create a macro that does what you want. 2. LOOK at the macro. Figure out what it is doing. 3. Use the information that you LEARNed in 2 to create your C# code.

[fiaolle]

Hi I have already tried that but it doesn't work. I have no idea how to solve this. If anyone knows please help. Thanks Fia

[Lost User]

fiaolle wrote:

It just selects the last occurrence of the word.

May be you have to set MultiSelect = true somewhere in your code. Just a suggestion though, I haven't done Word automation so far.