[Solved] _Word_DocRangeSet seems intermittent

[ahha]

Okay I've hacked down a large program to illustrate the problem I'm having.

I'm using the built-in Word UDF (which is great) and am finding a range and then copying it to the clipboard and sticking it in an array for viewing.

Then extending the range and again copying it to a clipboard and sticking it into the array.

It seems to drop the ranges randomly.  I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong (or if there's a better way to get a range into a variable).

Run the program with the test file and you'll see entries being dropped (put test file in same directory as the program).

Any pointers or help much appreciated.

Hacked down program for testing Range extend and copy v3c.au3

Test for Range Copy v1a.docx

Edited August 4, 2017 by ahha
solved

[water]

Why do you use the Clipboard? Couldn't you just copy the text to the array?
I would replace

$oRangeFound.Copy   ;v3c copy to clipboard
    $clip = ClipGet()
    $aFilenames[$count][0] = $clip

with

$aFilenames[$count][0] = $oRangeFound.Text

 

[ahha]

water,

Thank you. 

Using .Text seems to work fine.  It looks like either .Copy and/or ClipGet() are the intermittent culprits.

BTW - is there a list somewhere of the dot operations like .Text ?  I'm still learning (always).

[water]

Sure. The Word object model can be found here: https://msdn.microsoft.com/de-de/vba/word-vba/articles/object-model-word-vba-reference

[ahha]

Thanks.  BTW I've forgotten how to mark the title as [Solved]

[water]

Edit the first post in this thread and edit the title.