Get Word's cursor coordinates on the screen Guillermo_López-Anglada 6/20/2007 9:26:07 PM Hi, I have a form that opens on top of a doc so the user can perform a search. The form is rather minimal, but it still gets in the way sometimes and covers the search hit (selected text in the doc). I want the form to move out of the user's view. Since the search hit is selected, I could use the insertion point's position on the screen as reference, but I don't know how to do that in VBA or using an API call. Any help would be highly appreciated. Regards, Guillermo

Re: Get Word's cursor coordinates on the screen "Jonathan West" <jwest[ at ]mvps.org> 6/20/2007 9:45:02 PM "Guillermo López-Anglada" <guillermo[ at ]deletethislopez-anglada.com> wrote in message news:%23%23BEDI4sHHA.4132[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I have a form that opens on top of a doc so the user can perform a search. > The form is rather minimal, but it still gets in the way sometimes and > covers the search hit (selected text in the doc). > > I want the form to move out of the user's view. Since the search hit is > selected, I could use the insertion point's position on the screen as > reference, but I don't know how to do that in VBA or using an API call. > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > There is nothing in the Word object model that will tell you the location of the cursor on screen. It might be possible to do using the Windows API, but I don't know how. You might get some help from the group microsoft.public.vb.winapi. Make sure you clearly state you are using VBA in Word - that group deals with VB6, but it is sufficiently similar to VBA that they may be able to help, but it will assist them if they know what they are dealing with. However, it might prove not to be possible at all - Word's windows are pretty weird and non-standard beasts, and trying to hook them by normal Windows techniques often has undesirable side effects. -- Regards Jonathan West - Word MVP www.intelligentdocuments.co.uk Please reply to the newsgroup

Re: Get Word's cursor coordinates on the screen "Tony Jollans" <My forename at my surname dot com> 6/24/2007 9:55:55 PM (Window_Ref).GetPoint will return the position in the window of the Selection - in pixels. Form co-ordinates are measured in points so you will need to convert using PixelsToPoints. These numbers can be awkward to work with and may be unreliable but it is certainly better than nothing. -- Enjoy, Tony "Guillermo López-Anglada" <guillermo[ at ]deletethislopez-anglada.com> wrote in message news:%23%23BEDI4sHHA.4132[ at ]TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl... [Quoted Text] > Hi, > > I have a form that opens on top of a doc so the user can perform a search. > The form is rather minimal, but it still gets in the way sometimes and > covers the search hit (selected text in the doc). > > I want the form to move out of the user's view. Since the search hit is > selected, I could use the insertion point's position on the screen as > reference, but I don't know how to do that in VBA or using an API call. > > Any help would be highly appreciated. > > Regards, > > Guillermo