Applescript Interactions with Footnotes in Word

Question

hi,
I have run across a basic issue that has really frustrated me, I think it is a bug, but I would like someone else to take a look at it. From my testing it seems that using applescript, the following commands "Move Start of Range", "Collapse Range", "Move Range While", "Move Range Until", and several other "Range adjusting commands" do not work if your text range is in a footnote. Has anybody run across an issue such as this before? If so did you find a solution? If this is in fact a bug, where would be the proper place to report it?
I would appreciate any help in this matter you may have.
I have added a small snippet of code that will illustrate this.
tell application "Microsoft Word"
collapse range text object of selection direction collapse end
set myFootnote to make new footnote at active document with properties {text range:text object of selection}
set content of text object of myFootnote to "This is some test filler for the footnote"
set myRange to text object of myFootnote
select myRange
--by commenting out the line below, you will see that everything up until this point works correctly
move start of range myRange by a word item count 1
--I might be looking at it wrong, but this gives the wrong results (you will see many more issues with the other commands listed as well
end tell
If I am looking at this right, is this a bug in the applescript?
Regards.
Brian

Answer 1

Hi queenbeebrooklyn
try this
set FindWordsToReplace to "This word" as text
tell application "Microsoft Word"
set GetTxt to find object of selection
tell GetTxt
clear formatting
set its content to FindWordsToReplace
tell its replacement
clear formatting
set its content to FindWordsToReplace
tell its font object
set bold to true
end tell
end tell
execute find wrap find find continue replace replace all with match forward and match whole word without match case
end tell
end tell
Budgie
Message was edited by: Budgie