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Range.MoveStartUntil Method

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Moves the start position of the specified range until one of the specified characters is found in the document.

Syntax

expression.MoveStartUntil(Cset, Count)

expression   Required. A variable that represents a Range object.

Parameters

Name Required/Optional Data Type Description
Cset Required Variant One or more characters. This argument is case sensitive.
Count Optional Variant The maximum number of characters by which the specified range is to be moved. Can be a number or either the wdForward or wdBackward constant. If Count is a positive number, the range is moved forward in the document. If it is a negative number, the range is moved backward. The default value is wdForward.

Remarks

If the movement is backward through the document, the range is expanded.

This method returns the number of characters by which the start position of the specified range moved, as a Long value. If Count is greater than 0 (zero), this method returns the number of characters moved plus 1. If Count is less than 0 (zero), this method returns the number of characters moved minus 1. If no Cset characters are found, the specified range isn't changed and the method returns 0 (zero). If the start position is moved forward to a point beyond the end position, the range is collapsed and both the start and end positions are moved together.

Example

If there is a dollar sign character ($) in the first paragraph in the selected text, this example moves myRange just before the dollar sign.

Visual Basic for Applications 
  Set myRange = Selection.Paragraphs(1).Range
leng = myRange.End - myRange.Start
myRange.Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseStart
myRange.MoveStartUntil Cset:="$", Count:=leng

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