Quote Originally Posted by Howard Kaikow
In general, Expand will be faster.

Find may be faster when you are looking for specific criteria, such as fonts or styles or ...

Almost never use the Selection object.
Hi Howard,

True; like I mentioned before I try to avoid the Selection Object as much as possible. Not only to gain on speed but it has brought me to strange results in the past.

Off course it's always a good thing to experient with different approaches when you're programming a specific task. (there's almost always a tool that does the job the best)

I was triggerd by you're call that the Range Object with the Expand method would be the fastes way to achieve this.
I've never used this object to do this perticular task so I tried it out..

I'm going to try it in the future on other jobs to see if it's speeding things up.

I'm still wondering if anyone else got another approach on frying this chicken because it still seams to run a little bit slow. (on big documents with lot's of highlighting)

See Yah!