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Determining an ANSI Value
Summary: Extracting the numeric code for a character. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 6, Word 95, Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)
You can use the Asc function to determine the ANSI value of the first letter of a string. In early versions of BASIC, Asc returned the ASCII value, but Word uses only ANSI values. The function uses the following format:
x = Asc(y)
where x is the variable that the ANSI value should be assigned to, and y is the string to be analyzed. This approach will work in either WordBasic or VBA.
Tip #737 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 6 95 97 2000 2002 2003
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