Microsoft KB Archive/160757

= WD97: Run-Tme Error Using True Parameter on NewTemplate Method =

Article ID: 160757

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 Q160757





SYMPTOMS
When you run a macro that passes True as a parameter to the NewTemplate method of the Dialogs property, you receive the following error message:

Run-time error '9118': Parameter value was out of acceptable range.



CAUSE
The NewTemplate method only takes 0 or 1 as valid parameters. Your macro may be using True for the parameter and the value for "True" is -1.

The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code demonstrates this problem:

Set dlgDialog = Dialogs(wdDialogFileNew) dlgDialog.NewTemplate = True ' <- Attempts to set a value of -1. dlgDialog.Show



RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, use 1 as the parameter for the NewTemplate method instead of True or -1. For example: oDialog.NewTemplate = 1



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

