Microsoft KB Archive/285305

= PPT2002: Run-time Error -2147024809 When You Attempt to Change Views with Visual Basic for Applications =

Article ID: 285305

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft PowerPoint 2002 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q285305





SYMPTOMS
When you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro with Microsoft PowerPoint, you may receive an error message similar to the following:

Run-time error: '-2147024809 (80070057)'

DocumentWindow (unknown member): Invalid enumeration value.



CAUSE
This behavior is caused by PowerPoint's inability to change to certain views when running Visual Basic for Application macros. When you change the ViewType property to ppViewThumbnails or ppViewMasterThumbnails, the view does not change, and this run-time error message is displayed.



WORKAROUND
To work around this issue, you can add code to your macro to trap this function and change the view back to the previous view. To create a sample macro of this sort, follow these steps:  Start PowerPoint and then create a new presentation. Click Tools, point to Macro, and then click Visual Basic Editor (or press ALT+F11).  Type or paste the following code in the module: Sub A NewViewType = 11 ' 11 = Thumbnails, change this to change view On Error Resume Next Err.Clear OldViewType = ActiveWindow.ViewType ' Save the current view type to revert to if there is an error. ActiveWindow.ViewType = NewViewType If Err.Number = -2147024809 Then 'Thumb-type view ActiveWindow.ViewType = OldViewType ElseIf Err.Number = -2147188160 Then 'Title master view without a title master ActiveWindow.ViewType = OldViewType End If End Sub  Click anywhere in the code of subprocedure A, and then on the Run menu, click Run Sub/UserForm.

You can change the NewViewType variable to different valid view types ranging from 1 to 12.

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STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.

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