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Tino Hager
Tino Hager

Reputation: 1079

Word Office Javascript API - Format first x chars

I need to change the size of the first X characters for my add-in. To do this, I should either be able to go through the individual characters or format the first X characters in one go. But I can't find a way to access the individual characters in a Word.Range that works on the web and also on the desktop. So far it only works via the search method. Have I overlooked something?

// slow performance
const charRangeCollection = word.search("*", {
  matchWildcards: true,
  matchCase: false,
  ignoreSpace: true,
  ignorePunct: true,
  matchPrefix: false,
  matchSuffix: false,
  matchWholeWord: false,
});

This does not work with Word under Windows.

const wordChar = wordRange.getRange().split([""]);

Uncaught (in promise) RichApi.Error: InvalidArgument

In this answer they write getTextRanges() no longer accepts empty strings, but I don't know what to pass so that I only get the characters of one word -> How to get a range from start & end index with Office.js while developing MS Word Add-in

Upvotes: 0

Views: 66

Answers (1)

JHJ-MS
JHJ-MS

Reputation: 122

Sorry for the inconvenience. There is no other way currently. We open an internal bug #8831269 for the "Range.split([""])" consistency issues between Word Windows and Online. Thanks.

Upvotes: 2

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