Expand Method

Microsoft Word Visual Basic

Expands the specified range or selection. Returns the number of characters added to the range or selection. Long

expression.Expand(Unit)

expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the objects in the Applies To list.

Unit    Optional Variant. The unit by which to expand the range. WdUnits.

Can be one of the following WdUnits constants:

wdCharacter

wdWord

wdSentence

wdParagraph

wdSection

wdStory

wdCell

wdColumn

wdRow

wdTable.

If expression    represents a Selection object, wdLine can also be used. The default value is wdWord.

Example

This example creates a range that refers to the first word in the active document, and then it expands the range to reference the first paragraph in the document.

Set myRange = ActiveDocument.Words(1)
myRange.Expand Unit:=wdParagraph
		

This example capitalizes the first character in the selection and then expands the selection to include the entire sentence.

With Selection
    .Characters(1).Case = wdTitleSentence
    .Expand Unit:=wdSentence
End With