Article ID: 164235
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q164235
SUMMARY
When you attempt to add a project as a reference in Visual Basic for Applications, you receive the following error message:
You are attempting to reference a project for which a reference already exists.
MORE INFORMATION
For example, the global template Normal.dot is the default underlying template for all new documents. Normal.dot contains the Visual Basic for Applications project, "Normal."
When you create a new document based on the Word default template Normal.dot, the new document automatically inherits a reference to the "Normal" project. Also, each document is, in itself, a Visual Basic for Applications project.
Because the document project contains a reference to the normal project, if you attempt to create a reference to the document project from the "Normal" project, the error described earlier in this article will occur.
Also, the cyclic reference error will occur if you have made a reference to a project, for example, Project2 in Project1, and you then try to make a reference to Project1 in Project2.
For example, either project may have a reference to the other:
- Project1 can reference Project2 -or-
- Project2 can reference Project1
But you cannot create a situation in which the projects reference each other. For example, the following will generate the cyclic reference error:
- Project1 with a reference to Project2 -and-
- Project2 with a reference to Project1
For more information about references, from the Visual Basic for Applications Editor, click the Office Assistant, type references, click Search, and then click to view "Check or Add an Object Library Reference."
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 for Applications
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