I have created a custom toolbar which contains various buttons.  One of
these buttons is supposed to highlight the previously written sentence in
the document.  I presume this feature would need to somehow detect the last
full-stop to successfully highlight the correct section of the document.

As an add-on to the "Previous Sentence" feature, I would also, like to add a
"Next Sentence" feature aswell.

Could anyone provide any insight into how I might code this type of feature,
in terms of how make the button "detect" the next and/or previous sentence.
I know how to use the highlight feature in Word so that is not a problem,
its just the "sentence" part that is confusing me slightly...

I would appreciate anyone's advice on this issue...

Many thanks,

Thomas Evans

Hi Thomas,

You don't need to search for the full stops.  Word has a 'Sentences'
collection, so the coding is pretty straightforward:

Sub SelectPrevSentence
Dim r As Range
Set r = Selection.Sentences(1)
r.Move Unit:=wdSentence, Count:=-2
r.Sentences(1).Select
End Sub

Sub SelectNextSentence
Dim r As Range
Set r = Selection.Sentences(1)
r.Move Unit:=wdSentence, Count:=1
r.Sentences(1).Select
End Sub

Note that a legitimate period in the middle of a sentence (say, in
an abbreviation) is incorrectly interpreted as the end of a sentence,
no matter what follows it.  While you could try to code around this,
it'd probably be more trouble than it's worth.

Hope this helps.

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