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Is there a faster way to count the number of the current paragraph?

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Hi Experts,

I've been analysing my MS Word add-in and, to my surprise, the program spends an incredible amount of time doing a simple function.  In the function below:

dim rng as range
dim rngparacheckasrange
dim lngCurrentParagraph as long
dim strWordToSearch as string

If rng.Find.Execute(" " & strWordToSearch) then
           Set rngParaCheck = doctesting.Range
           rngParaCheck.SetRange Start:=doctesting.Content.Start, End:=rng.Start
           lngCurrentParagraph = rngParaCheck.Paragraphs.Count

This function runs a search and then determines the paragraph number of the resulting range.

You won't believe this (or maybe you will), but the program spends an incredible amount of time in the last line... the search is fast... but counting all the paragraphs in a range is very slow.  I have no idea why.

Is there a faster, quicker, innovative way to determine the paragraph number of a range?  Thanks in advance to any lateral minded experts!

Cheers,

PatternNut
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Zone: Programming
Question Asked By: PatternNut
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