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Is it possible to find out the x,y location of a specific word in a field?

Id need to place a 'target' style graphic over specific words, I can already highlight them, but I need to find their position so i can

set the loc of graphic "target" to......

Ive tried to the loc of word x of line y of field "myfield" but that didnt work, any other ideas?

Thanks

Andy

Hi Andy,

You can select the word and get the selectedLoc. I believe that the returned co-ordinate is the topleft of the word.

Best,

Mark

Thanks Mark