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Chapter 3 - Word Processing Views / Word Processing View Reference

Protos / protoTXViewFinder

GetRangeText

protoTXViewFinder:GetRangeText(range)

Creates and returns a string that contains the characters in the specified range in the data object.

range

A range frame, as described in "The Range Frame".

return value

A string containing the characters in range.

IMPORTANT

You must call the protoTXViewFinder:FindString method to select a range of text in the data object before calling protoTXViewFinder:*GetRangeText.