Determining the Current Page Number with WordBasic

Summary: How to figure out, in a WordBasic macro, the page number where the selection pointer is located. (This tip works with Microsoft Word 6, and Word 95.)

As you are programming your macros, you may have a need to know the current page number on which the insertion point is located. This is easily obtained by using the following code line in your WordBasic macro:

CurPage = SelInfo(1)

When executed, CurPage is set to the value that would print if you asked Word to print a page number. CurPage represents a logical page number, not a physical page number. The difference is that logical page numbers take into account manual adjustments that may have been made to the document. For instance, if the user instructed Word to start counting pages at some value other than 1.

Tip #727 applies to Microsoft Word versions: 6 | 95

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