Microsoft KB Archive/254708

= WD2000: Undocumented Information About Visual Basic WdKeyCategory Constants =

Article ID: 254708

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006

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 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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SUMMARY
This article provides undocumented information about the Microsoft Visual Basic constants WdKeyCategoryPrefix, WdKeyCategoryDisable, and WdKeyCategoryNil.



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  WdKeyCategoryPrefix is used in the constant group WdKeyCategory, which is used to add key customizations and look at their properties.

For example, if you create the custom key combination, ALT+A,B, to map to a command, ALT+A is considered a prefix key customization; it is a prefix to the whole keystroke.

In the following sample code Keybindings.Add wdKeyCategoryCommand, "Bold", wdKeyAlt+wdKeyC,wdKeyD pressing ALT+C,D applies the bold command.

The following code MsgBox Keybindings(1).KeyCategory returns 1, which is wdKeyCategoryCommand.

The following code MsgBox Application.FindKey(wdKeyAlt+wdKeyC).KeyCategory returns 7, which is wdKeyCategoryPrefix.

NOTE: You never use wdKeyCategoryPrefix when adding a key customization; it is just a side effect.   WdKeyCategoryDisable may be used to disable hotkeys. The following sample code disables CTRL+K (for inserting a hyperlink) in Microsoft Word: Sub DisableHotKeyInWord Application.KeyBindings.Add KeyCode:=BuildKeyCode(wdKeyControl, wdKeyK), KeyCategory:=wdKeyCategoryDisable, Command:="" End Sub   WdKeyCategoryNil is used when a key combination called programmatically does nothing, as in the following sample code: Dim oKey as object Set oKey = application.findkey(Application.BuildKeyCode(wdKeyControl, wdKeyShift, wdKeyX)) oKey.execute NOTE: Using this or similar code that uses the WdKeyCategoryNil constant may cause an unexpected run-time error. 

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