Getting line # in word

[mlpdx]

Is it possible to get the line position of the cursor in a word document?

I wanted to count the number of lines in a Word document. I thought I could do this by doing a loop with sendkeys({DOWN}) and checking the cursor X, Y at each iteration (when Y doesn't increment, I'd hit the bottom of the doc), but it doesn't look like I can get the cursor position. WinCaretPos is returning something else that doesn't change as the cursor moves down the doc, and the mouse coords aren't related to the cursor position either.

[martin]

Is it possible to get the line position of the cursor in a word document?

I wanted to count the number of lines in a Word document. I thought I could do this by doing a loop with sendkeys({DOWN}) and checking the cursor X, Y at each iteration (when Y doesn't increment, I'd hit the bottom of the doc), but it doesn't look like I can get the cursor position. WinCaretPos is returning something else that doesn't change as the cursor moves down the doc, and the mouse coords aren't related to the cursor position either.

Probably you need to look at big_daddy's Word UDF.

[mlpdx]

Thanks, I checked it out... looks like a wrapper around COM access to Word, but nothing that directly can tell me where the insertion point is. Maybe there is some way to do that with COM, but that's outside of my limited knowledge at this point!