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Kana Property

Returns or sets whether the specified range of Japanese language text is hiragana or katakana. Read/write WdKana.

expression.Kana

expression    Required. An expression that returns a Range object.

Remarks

This property returns wdUndefined if the range contains a mix of hiragana and katakana or if the range contains some non-Japanese text. If you set the Kana property to wdUndefined, an error occurs.

Example

This example displays what type of Japanese text the current selection contains.

Select Case Selection.Range.Kana
    Case wdKanaHiragana
        MsgBox "This text is hiragana."
    Case wdKanaKatakana
        MsgBox "This text is katakana."
    Case wdUndefined
        MsgBox "This text is a mix of " _
            & "hiragana and katakana."
End Select