InsertBefore Method

expression.InsertBefore(Text)

expression    Required. An expression that returns a Range or Selection object.

Text    Required String. The text to be inserted.

Remarks

You can insert characters such as quotation marks, tab characters, and nonbreaking hyphens by using the Visual Basic Chr function with the InsertBefore method. You can also use the following Visual Basic constants: vbCr, vbLf, vbCrLf and vbTab.

Example

This example inserts the text "Hamlet" (enclosed in quotation marks) before the selection and then collapses the selection.

With Selection
    .InsertBefore Chr(34) & "Hamlet" & Chr(34) & Chr(32)
    .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
End With
		

This example inserts the text "Introduction" as a separate paragraph at the beginning of the active document.

With ActiveDocument.Content
    .InsertParagraphBefore
    .InsertBefore "Introduction"
End With
		

This example inserts all the font names in the FontNames collection into a new document.

Documents.Add
For Each aFont In FontNames
    With Selection
        .InsertBefore aFont
        .Collapse Direction:=wdCollapseEnd
        .TypeParagraph
    End With
Next aFont