Selection.MoveStart (Word)

Moves the start position of the specified selection.

This method returns an integer that indicates the number of units by which the start position or the selection actually moved, or it returns 0 (zero) if the move was unsuccessful.

MoveStart (Unit, Count)

Selection.MoveStart Unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=1

Arguments

Optional arguments

The following arguments are optional

Unit (WdUnits) - The unit by which start position of the specified selection is to be moved. Can be one of the WdUnits constants. The default value is wdCharacter.

Here you can find possible values for WdUnits

Count (Long) - The maximum number of units by which the specified selection is to be moved. If Count is a positive number, the start position of the selection is moved forward in the document. If it is a negative number, the start position is moved backward. If the start position is moved forward to a position beyond the end position, the selection is collapsed and both the start and end positions are moved together. The default value is 1.