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Determining How Many Styles are Available

Summary: When writing a macro, you may need to know how many styles are defined in a document. This tip discloses the techniques you can use to figure out just what you need. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, and Word 2003.)

You can determine the number of styles available in a document (when creating a VBA macro) by using the Count property with the Styles object. This is done using the following syntax:

x = ActiveDocument.Styles.Count

where x is the variable you can then use in other VBA macro lines. Note that this function indicates how many have been defined, not how many of those are actually in use. This means that built-in styles are also counted. If you want to exclude built-in styles, you can do an actual iterative count of the styles in this manner:

x = 0
For Each objStyle in ActiveDocument.Styles
    If Not objStyle.BuiltIn Then x = x + 1
Next objStyle

Tip #803 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 | 2000 | 2002 | 2003


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