Microsoft KB Archive/164009

= WD97: Paragraph.Border.Linestyle Incorrect After Applying Shadow =

Article ID: 164009

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q164009





SYMPTOMS
When you apply both 3-D borders and shadowing to a paragraph, then use the LineStyle property to return the type of borders applied for top, bottom, left, and right sides of the border for that paragraph, the returned values for bottom and right borders are wdLineStyleEngrave3D (or 22). The expected returned values would be wdLineStyleEmboss3D (or 21).



CAUSE
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The following example Visual Basic for Applications macro demonstrates this problem. The macro first applies 3-D borders to a paragraph and then applies a paragraph shadow. A loop is set to return the values of the type of border applied to each side of the paragraph. Sub ParaShadowBorder Set oBorders = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Borders oBorders.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleEmboss3D oBorders.Shadow = True For Each Border In oBorders MsgBox Border.LineStyle Next Border End Sub



STATUS
Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

173707 OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

