Description

Gets or sets the current selection in the text part with the input focus. This can be the main text, a text frame or a header or footer. The property value is an object of the type Selection. A selection can be used to assign character and paragraph formatting attributes to a piece of text.

Syntax

public Selection Selection { get; set; }

Public Property Selection As Selection

Examples

The following example uses the current selection to emphasize a report heading.

textControl.Text = "Quarterly results\nRevenue increased by 12%.";
textControl.Select(0, "Quarterly results".Length);
textControl.Selection.Bold = true;

textControl.Text = "Quarterly results" & vbCrLf & "Revenue increased by 12%."
textControl.Select(0, "Quarterly results".Length)
textControl.Selection.Bold = True

Limitations

Runtime only.