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Word allows you to use styles to format both paragraphs and individual characters in your document. These styles can greatly simply the consistent application of formatting across an entire document. If you are writing a VBA macro, you may have a need to determine the name of the style applied to a particular paragraph. You can do that by using the Style property with a Paragraph object, as follows:
sParStyle = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(J).Style
When this line is executed, sParStyle (a string variable) will contain the name of the style used on the specified paragraph.
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2021-06-09 16:24:25
Janusz Chmiel
Dear specialists,
Unfortunately, I AM getting
Run-time error '5941
When I try to execute The code
sParStyle = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(J).Style
I AM using Office 2003 standard for students and teachers.
Please, does somebody of us knows why this run-time error occurs?
Thank you very much for yours explanation.
With kindness regards.
Janusz Chmiel
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