Microsoft KB Archive/212619

= WD2000: Can't Assign an Array to Explicitly Declared Array Variable =

Article ID: 212619

Article Last Modified on 10/11/2006

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 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q212619





SUMMARY
The Visual Basic for Applications language contains properties whose values can be returned into an array. To use this functionality, you must declare your array as type "variant." Attempting to declare the array as any other type results in the following error message:

Compile error:

Expected array



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For more information about how to use the sample code in this article, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

The following Visual Basic for Applications macro example returns an array that contains the names of all writing styles available for the U.S. English language. Each writing style and its number in the array are also displayed in a message box through means of a loop set to iterate for the total number of items in the array.

Sub GetWritingStyles

' Dimension the array as type "variant". Dim WrStyles As Variant Dim iCount As Integer

' Assign the values to the array WrStyles = Languages(wdEnglishUS).WritingStyleList

' Loop the number of items in the array and display...  ' each item and its array position. For iCount = 1 To UBound(WrStyles) MsgBox WrStyles(iCount) Next iCount

End Sub

For more information about declaring variables, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type declaring variables in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.

