Microsoft KB Archive/175924

= WD97: Code to Determine Whether Open Document Is a Template =

Article ID: 175924

Article Last Modified on 1/22/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q175924





SUMMARY
This article contains a sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications procedure (or macro) that determines if an open Microsoft Word document is in a document format or a template format.



MORE INFORMATION
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Sample Procedure
Sub IsTemplate ' Use the FileSaveAs dialog to determine the typ of document. With Dialogs(wdDialogFileSaveAs) ' Execute the dialog but do not display the dialog. .Execute If .Format = 1 Then MsgBox "Template" Else MsgBox "Not a template" End If     End With End Sub For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

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

