Re: Parse style names into alias segments?

If the code is supposed to work in an international environment (which might
just be some users having set the MUI version to some menu/help language
other than English), the task can become an absolute beast.
The delimiters in alias names can turn into semicolons then, built-in styles
will take on the localized names, "Char" styles can be "Zchn" or "Car"
styles or whatever, ...
And you get a mix of all those names, depending on who edited the document
at some time in the past.

I've had cases where I wasn't able to access some styles by their name at
all. With all that renaming going on behind the scenes, it turned out
impossible to find (or guess) a name that works.

:-/ Klaus





"Bear" wrote:
Jonathan:

Thanks indeed. I had actually already hit on that as an emergency
workaround
method, but wondered if it was "good coding" or not.

I like the idea of incorporating the comma delimiters in the comparison.

Bear



"Jonathan West" wrote:

Hi Bear,

This might do the needful

If Instr(objPara.Style & ",", ",LN,") > 0 Then ...

This works on the basis that somewhere within your new style name with
all
the
aliases is your original vale. You need to ensure that you aren't
matching a
part of another alias of a different style, hence the need to add a
terminating comma to the alias list, and match for the style name with
opening and closing commas added.

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"Bear" <Bear@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I use a lot of this:

if objPara.Style = "LN" then...

But now I'm asked to add aliases to my standard set of styles. This
will
break a lot of my code.

My first thought is to build a common function that will parse out each
segment of the style name, then evaluate each segment (Select Case),
and
pass
back the appropriate segment.

Does anyone have any code they'd like to share? I've explored Array,
but
aliases aren't formatted that way.

Or is there a way to test a style that avoids this problem?

Bear




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