Return Word "Chapter Number"

[YoungTurk]

Looking for a way to determine the "chapter number" for the current selection in the document (and write it to a variable). Although the outline property I refer to must be in the document properties somewhere in order to be used in the footer, I can't figure out how to access it.

The "chapter number" I'm referring to is what is put into the footer via the page numbering options and should be linked to the outline heading.

This task is dying to be automated, help!

Thanks.

 

[xwb]

Could your chapter number be the section number?

 

[YoungTurk]

Unfortunately not, since I'm using a standard document format. I did get partial resolution with the following code; unfortunately it returns the bullet number associated to the first paragraph of the section so any extraneous paragraphs (spacers) will throw it off.
I may code it to cycle from 1 up until the string is not null.

ChapNumber = Selection.Sections(1).Range.ListFormat.ListString