Microsoft KB Archive/183587

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Article ID: 183587

Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006



APPLIES TO

  • Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh



This article was previously published under Q183587


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, as in the following example:

dlgDialog.NewTemplate = 1
                

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

181058 OFF98: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles


REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic forApplications



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