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Word.Interfaces.SelectionData interface

Package:
word

An interface describing the data returned by calling selection.toJSON().

Properties

end

Specifies the ending character position of the selection.
fitTextWidth

Specifies the width in which Word fits the text in the current selection.
hasNoProofing

Returns whether the spelling and grammar checker ignores the selected text. If the selected text contains a mix of proofed and un-proofed content, this API returns null.
isActive

Returns whether the selection in the specified window or pane is active.
isColumnSelectModeActive

Specifies whether column selection mode is active.
isEndOfRowMark

Returns whether the selection is at the end-of-row mark in a table.
isExtendModeActive

Specifies whether Extend mode is active.
isInsertionPointAtEndOfLine

Returns whether the insertion point is at the end of a line.
isStartActive

Specifies whether the beginning of the selection is active.
languageDetected

Specifies whether Word has detected the language of the selected text.
languageId

Returns the language for the selection.
languageIdFarEast

Returns the East Asian language for the selection.
languageIdOther

Returns the language for the selection that isn't classified as an East Asian language.
orientation

Specifies the orientation of text in the selection.
start

Specifies the starting character position of the selection.
storyLength

Returns the number of characters in the story that contains the selection.
storyType

Returns the story type for the selection.
text

Specifies the text in the selection.
type

Returns the selection type.

Property Details

end

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Specifies the ending character position of the selection.

end?: number;

Property Value

number

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

fitTextWidth

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Specifies the width in which Word fits the text in the current selection.

fitTextWidth?: number;

Property Value

number

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

hasNoProofing

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns whether the spelling and grammar checker ignores the selected text. If the selected text contains a mix of proofed and un-proofed content, this API returns null.

hasNoProofing?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

isActive

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns whether the selection in the specified window or pane is active.

isActive?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

isColumnSelectModeActive

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Specifies whether column selection mode is active.

isColumnSelectModeActive?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

isEndOfRowMark

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns whether the selection is at the end-of-row mark in a table.

isEndOfRowMark?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

isExtendModeActive

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Specifies whether Extend mode is active.

isExtendModeActive?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

isInsertionPointAtEndOfLine

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns whether the insertion point is at the end of a line.

isInsertionPointAtEndOfLine?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

isStartActive

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Specifies whether the beginning of the selection is active.

isStartActive?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

languageDetected

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Specifies whether Word has detected the language of the selected text.

languageDetected?: boolean;

Property Value

boolean

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

languageId

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns the language for the selection.

languageId?: Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu";

Property Value

Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu"

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

languageIdFarEast

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns the East Asian language for the selection.

languageIdFarEast?: Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu";

Property Value

Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu"

Remarks

[ API set: WordApi BETA (PREVIEW ONLY) ]

languageIdOther

Note

This API is provided as a preview for developers and may change based on feedback that we receive. Do not use this API in a production environment.

Returns the language for the selection that isn't classified as an East Asian language.

languageIdOther?: Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu";

Property Value

Word.LanguageId | "Afrikaans" | "Albanian" | "Amharic" | "Arabic" | "ArabicAlgeria" | "ArabicBahrain" | "ArabicEgypt" | "ArabicIraq" | "ArabicJordan" | "ArabicKuwait" | "ArabicLebanon" | "ArabicLibya" | "ArabicMorocco" | "ArabicOman" | "ArabicQatar" | "ArabicSyria" | "ArabicTunisia" | "ArabicUAE" | "ArabicYemen" | "Armenian" | "Assamese" | "AzeriCyrillic" | "AzeriLatin" | "Basque" | "BelgianDutch" | "BelgianFrench" | "Bengali" | "Bulgarian" | "Burmese" | "Belarusian" | "Catalan" | "Cherokee" | "ChineseHongKongSAR" | "ChineseMacaoSAR" | "ChineseSingapore" | "Croatian" | "Czech" | "Danish" | "Divehi" | "Dutch" | "Edo" | "EnglishAUS" | "EnglishBelize" | "EnglishCanadian" | "EnglishCaribbean" | "EnglishIndonesia" | "EnglishIreland" | "EnglishJamaica" | "EnglishNewZealand" | "EnglishPhilippines" | "EnglishSouthAfrica" | "EnglishTrinidadTobago" | "EnglishUK" | "EnglishUS" | "EnglishZimbabwe" | "Estonian" | "Faeroese" | "Filipino" | "Finnish" | "French" | "FrenchCameroon" | "FrenchCanadian" | "FrenchCongoDRC" | "FrenchCotedIvoire" | "FrenchHaiti" | "FrenchLuxembourg" | "FrenchMali" | "FrenchMonaco" | "FrenchMorocco" | "FrenchReunion" | "FrenchSenegal" | "FrenchWestIndies" | "FrisianNetherlands" | "Fulfulde" | "GaelicIreland" | "GaelicScotland" | "Galician" | "Georgian" | "German" | "GermanAustria" | "GermanLiechtenstein" | "GermanLuxembourg" | "Greek" | "Guarani" | "Gujarati" | "Hausa" | "Hawaiian" | "Hebrew" | "Hindi" | "Hungarian" | "Ibibio" | "Icelandic" | "Igbo" | "Indonesian" | "Inuktitut" | "Italian" | "Japanese" | "Kannada" | "Kanuri" | "Kashmiri" | "Kazakh" | "Khmer" | "Kirghiz" | "Konkani" | "Korean" | "Kyrgyz" | "LanguageNone" | "Lao" | "Latin" | "Latvian" | "Lithuanian" | "MacedonianFYROM" | "Malayalam" | "MalayBruneiDarussalam" | "Malaysian" | "Maltese" | "Manipuri" | "Marathi" | "MexicanSpanish" | "Mongolian" | "Nepali" | "NoProofing" | "NorwegianBokmol" | "NorwegianNynorsk" | "Oriya" | "Oromo" | "Pashto" | "Persian" | "Polish" | "Portuguese" | "PortugueseBrazil" | "Punjabi" | "RhaetoRomanic" | "Romanian" | "RomanianMoldova" | "Russian" | "RussianMoldova" | "SamiLappish" | "Sanskrit" | "SerbianCyrillic" | "SerbianLatin" | "Sesotho" | "SimplifiedChinese" | "Sindhi" | "SindhiPakistan" | "Sinhalese" | "Slovak" | "Slovenian" | "Somali" | "Sorbian" | "Spanish" | "SpanishArgentina" | "SpanishBolivia" | "SpanishChile" | "SpanishColombia" | "SpanishCostaRica" | "SpanishDominicanRepublic" | "SpanishEcuador" | "SpanishElSalvador" | "SpanishGuatemala" | "SpanishHonduras" | "SpanishModernSort" | "SpanishNicaragua" | "SpanishPanama" | "SpanishParaguay" | "SpanishPeru" | "SpanishPuertoRico" | "SpanishUruguay" | "SpanishVenezuela" | "Sutu" | "Swahili" | "Swedish" | "SwedishFinland" | "SwissFrench" | "SwissGerman" | "SwissItalian" | "Syriac" | "Tajik" | "Tamazight" | "TamazightLatin" | "Tamil" | "Tatar" | "Telugu" | "Thai" | "Tibetan" | "TigrignaEritrea" | "TigrignaEthiopic" | "TraditionalChinese" | "Tsonga" | "Tswana" | "Turkish" | "Turkmen" | "Ukrainian" | "Urdu" | "UzbekCyrillic" | "UzbekLatin" | "Venda" | "Vietnamese" | "Welsh" | "Xhosa" | "Yi" | "Yiddish" | "Yoruba" | "Zulu"

Remarks

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orientation

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Specifies the orientation of text in the selection.

orientation?: Word.TextOrientation | "Horizontal" | "Upward" | "Downward" | "VerticalFarEast" | "HorizontalRotatedFarEast" | "Vertical";

Property Value

Word.TextOrientation | "Horizontal" | "Upward" | "Downward" | "VerticalFarEast" | "HorizontalRotatedFarEast" | "Vertical"

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start

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Specifies the starting character position of the selection.

start?: number;

Property Value

number

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storyLength

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Returns the number of characters in the story that contains the selection.

storyLength?: number;

Property Value

number

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storyType

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Returns the story type for the selection.

storyType?: Word.StoryType | "MainText" | "Footnotes" | "Endnotes" | "Comments" | "TextFrame" | "EvenPagesHeader" | "PrimaryHeader" | "EvenPagesFooter" | "PrimaryFooter" | "FirstPageHeader" | "FirstPageFooter" | "FootnoteSeparator" | "FootnoteContinuationSeparator" | "FootnoteContinuationNotice" | "EndnoteSeparator" | "EndnoteContinuationSeparator" | "EndnoteContinuationNotice";

Property Value

Word.StoryType | "MainText" | "Footnotes" | "Endnotes" | "Comments" | "TextFrame" | "EvenPagesHeader" | "PrimaryHeader" | "EvenPagesFooter" | "PrimaryFooter" | "FirstPageHeader" | "FirstPageFooter" | "FootnoteSeparator" | "FootnoteContinuationSeparator" | "FootnoteContinuationNotice" | "EndnoteSeparator" | "EndnoteContinuationSeparator" | "EndnoteContinuationNotice"

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text

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Specifies the text in the selection.

text?: string;

Property Value

string

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type

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Returns the selection type.

type?: Word.SelectionType | "NoSelection" | "InsertionPoint" | "Normal" | "Frame" | "Column" | "Row" | "Block" | "InlineShape" | "SelectionShape";

Property Value

Word.SelectionType | "NoSelection" | "InsertionPoint" | "Normal" | "Frame" | "Column" | "Row" | "Block" | "InlineShape" | "SelectionShape"

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