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Determining an ANSI Value
Summary: You may need to determine the numeric value of a character in a macro. You can do that using the Asc function, described in this tip. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 97, Word 2000, Word 2002, Word 2003, and Word 2007.)
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(sMyString)
where x is the variable that the ANSI value should be assigned to, and sMyString is the string to be analyzed.
Tip #737 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 97 2000 2002 2003 2007
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