Word.au3 - search outside the main body of the Word doc

[arts]

Hello,
I can search through a Word document using Word.au3 but the search is limited to the main body of the document. Is it possible to search in the other parts like headers, footers, text-boxes, footnotes, image legends/captions or any other area that is outside the main body? I think this is called the StoryRanges of the StoryTypes as decribed in this macro . Can it be done with AutoIt? Thank you.

Edited October 31, 2014 by arts

[water]

Parameter $vSearchRange allows to specify the search range. What happens when you pass the needed StoryRange?

Can't test at the moment as I have no Office installed here.

[arts]

Parameter $vSearchRange allows to specify the search range. What happens when you pass the needed StoryRange?

Can't test at the moment as I have no Office installed here.

I'll try and let you know later, Water. Thank you.

[arts]

Well, using this modified piece of code from your  "_Word_DocFind Example" I can find the word "Story" in Footnotes. Now I 'only' have to find a way of looping over the other parts of the document too...

Local $Footnotes = $oDoc.Footnotes.Count
ConsoleWrite("Footnotes: " & $Footnotes & @CRLF )

   For $n = 1 to $Footnotes
      $MyFootnote = $oDoc.Footnotes($n).range
      $oRangeFound = _Word_DocFind($oDoc, "Story", $MyFootnote, Default, False)
      If @error Then Exit MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Word UDF: _Word_DocFind Example", _
            "Error locating the specified text in the document." & @CRLF & "@error = " & @error & ", @extended = " & @extended)
      $oRangeFound.Bold = True
      MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "Word UDF: _Word_DocFind Example", _
            "Last occurrence of string 'Story' in the document marked as bold.")
   Next

Edited November 3, 2014 by arts

[water]

Global Const $wdFootnotesStory = 2
For $oStory In $oDoc.StoryRanges ; Process all Stories of the document
    If $oStory = $wdFootnotesStory Then ; Only process Footnotes
        $oStoryRange = $oStory
        While 1 ; Loop through the footnotes
            $oStoryRange = $oStoryEange.NextStoryRange
            If $oStoryRange = 0 Then ExitLoop ; No more footnotes
            ; Process $oStory.NextStoryRange here
        WEnd
    EndIf
Next

Untested example how to loop through the stories and process all footnotes.

[arts]

Global Const $wdFootnotesStory = 2
For $oStory In $oDoc.StoryRanges ; Process all Stories of the document
    If $oStory = $wdFootnotesStory Then ; Only process Footnotes
        $oStoryRange = $oStory
        While 1 ; Loop through the footnotes
            $oStoryRange = $oStoryEange.NextStoryRange
            If $oStoryRange = 0 Then ExitLoop ; No more footnotes
            ; Process $oStory.NextStoryRange here
        WEnd
    EndIf
Next

Untested example how to loop through the stories and process all footnotes.

I couldn't make it work, water. Probably, my fault. Note that my solution above works and gets all Footnotes in the document (tested with a 15 pages doc with many footnotes in each page). But I need more than footnotes. So, now I need to create a global routine that can address headers, footers, text-boxes, footnotes, image legends/caption, comments, etc. in a run. Your approach with '$oDoc.StoryRanges' seems very interesting and I'll try to explore it tomorrow. Thank you!

Edited November 4, 2014 by arts

[water]

The following script loops through all Stories, processes the footnotes and writes them to the Console.

#include <word.au3>
$oWord = _Word_Create()
$oDoc = _Word_DocOpen($oWord, @ScriptDir & "\test.docx")
Global Const $wdFootnotesStory = 2
For $oStory In $oDoc.StoryRanges ; Process all Stories of the document
    If $oStory.StoryType = $wdFootnotesStory Then ; Only process Footnotes
        $oStoryRange = $oStory
        While $oStoryRange.NextStoryRange <> 0 ; Loop through the footnotes
            ; Process $oStory.NextStoryRange here
            ConsoleWrite("Footnotes: " & @CRLF & $oStoryRange.Text)
            $oStoryRange = $oStoryRange.NextStoryRange
        WEnd
    EndIf
Next

[arts]

 

The following script loops through all Stories, processes the footnotes and writes them to the Console.

#include <word.au3>
$oWord = _Word_Create()
$oDoc = _Word_DocOpen($oWord, @ScriptDir & "\test.docx")
Global Const $wdFootnotesStory = 2
For $oStory In $oDoc.StoryRanges ; Process all Stories of the document
    If $oStory.StoryType = $wdFootnotesStory Then ; Only process Footnotes
        $oStoryRange = $oStory
        While $oStoryRange.NextStoryRange <> 0 ; Loop through the footnotes
            ; Process $oStory.NextStoryRange here
            ConsoleWrite("Footnotes: " & @CRLF & $oStoryRange.Text)
            $oStoryRange = $oStoryRange.NextStoryRange
        WEnd
    EndIf
Next

Yes, this one gets every footnote. I'll explore this to try to get all I need. Thank you very much, water!

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