How to assign a selection to a variable

[ikards]

Word VBA newbie. I have "found" a date in a Word doc via "With Selection.Find". I used "Selection.Expand wdSentence" to narrow it down to just the date. Now here's where I feel really stupid. How do I "assign" the selected date to a variable? I want to save it for other uses. I have defined: "Dim sdate As String". I can't find any documentation on the simple assignment of the selection to the variable. "sdate = ??????"
Thanks for your help!

-- Steve Ikard

 

[ikards]

Sorry about that. I did some experimenting and found that the simple "sdate = Selection" does the trick.

-- Steve Ikard