Microsoft KB Archive/201471

= XL2000: Modules.Count Method Always Returns Zero =

Article ID: 201471

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Excel 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q201471





SYMPTOMS
When you run a macro that counts the number of modules in the active workbook, the macro always returns a count of zero (0).



CAUSE
This problem occurs when your macro uses the Count property of the Modules collection.

The Modules collection is present in Microsoft Excel 2000 for backward compatibility with earlier versions. However, the Count property of the Modules collection only counts Excel 5.0 and Excel 7.0 module sheets. It does not count new module sheets in the Visual Basic Editor in Excel 2000. The new collection for this purpose is VBComponents.



RESOLUTION
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To count the modules in your Visual Basic project, use the following sample macro:

Sub CountModules x = ThisWorkbook.VBProject.VBComponents.Count y = 0 For ctr = 1 To x     If ThisWorkbook.VBProject.VBComponents(ctr).Type = 1 Then y = y + 1 End If  Next ctr MsgBox "Module count is " & y  End Sub

