Microsoft KB Archive/198840

= WD2000: Run Time Error 4366 Using Application.Run Command =

Article ID: 198840

Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition

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This article was previously published under Q198840





SYMPTOMS
When you run a Visual Basic For Applications macro containing the "Application.Run Macroname:=" command in Microsoft Word or in another Office program to automate Word, the following error message may appear:

Run Time error '4366' : Unable to run the specified macro.



CAUSE
You have included a template name as part of the Macroname argument string.



WORKAROUND
To avoid naming conflicts among referenced projects, give your procedures unique names, so that you can call a procedure without specifying a project or module.



RESOLUTION
Remove the template name from the Macroname argument.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements.

In the online help, the Run method states that you can use the template name in the Macroname argument string, and then it shows the following examples as valid statements:

Application.Run "Normal.Module1.MAIN" Application.Run "MyProject.MyModule.MyProcedure" Application.Run "'My Document.doc'!ThisModule.ThisProcedure"

Visual Basic for Applications assigns names to macros in the following order:

project.module.procedure.

When Visual Basic for Applications accesses the Microsoft Word Object model, a project can be either a template or document with stored procedures. In Visual Basic for Applications, the Word projects are named in the following manner:

The following illustration describes how Visual Basic for Applications handles Microsoft Word macros of the same name or macros and modules of the same name in different template and document projects that are active.

In Microsoft Word, if you open a document named MyDoc.doc that is based on the template MyTemp.dot, both documents have a module called "Newmacros" and a macro called "MyMacro." At Startup, a template called "MyStart.dot" loads with the "Normal.dot" global template. Both of these templates have a module called "Newmacros", and there is a macro called "MyMacro" in the module.

With the three templates and one document active in Microsoft Word, when the Macro dialog box appears, you see the following lines of code:

Normal.NewMacros.Mymacro Project.NewMacros.Mymacro Project1.NewMacros.Mymacro TemplateProject.NewMacros.Mymacro

Open the Visual Basic Editor by pressing ALT+F11. Then, press CTRL+R to view the following in Project Explorer:

Normal(Normal)

Project(MyTemp)

Project(MyDoc)

TemplateProject(MyStart)

If you want to run the macro in MyStart.dot, write your code as follows:

Application.Run "TemplateProject.NewMacro.macro1"

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Normal.NewMacros.Mymacro = Normal.dot Project.NewMacros.Mymacro = MyTemp.dot Project1.NewMacros.Mymacro = MyDoc.doc

Additional query words: vb wd2000 Run Time error 4366 Unable to the specified macro

Keywords: kbbug kbnofix kbmacroexample KB198840

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