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WD97: Cannot Reference HeadingStyles Index with String Value

Article ID: 165290

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

APPLIES TO

Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q165290

SYMPTOMS

When you try to reference a heading style used to compile a table of figures or table of contents, the following error message appears:

Run-time error '13': Type mismatch

CAUSE

You will receive this error message if you attempt to reference the HeadingStyle object with a string value. For example, you will receive this message if you attempt to reference HeadingStyle by using the name of the style.

WORKAROUND

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To reference a heading style that has been added to compile a table of figures or table of contents, use either of the following methods:

Reference the style with an integer value. -or-

Create a macro that allows you to reference the style by name.

The following example Visual Basic for Applications macro demonstrates how you can reference the style by name without receiving the error message:

      Sub AddRemoveHeadingStyleExample()
         Dim oTOCStyle As Object
         ' Add a user defined style to the document.
         ActiveDocument.Styles.Add Name:="UserDefined Para Style", _
         Type:=wdStyleTypeParagraph
         ' Insert a table of contents
         ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents.Add ActiveDocument.Content
         ' Add User Defined style to TOC HeadingStyles.
         ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents(1).HeadingStyles.Add _
         "UserDefined Para Style", 1
         ' Loop through HeadingStyle collection.
         For Each oTOCStyle In _
            ActiveDocument.TablesOfContents(1).HeadingStyles
            ' Perform conditional on style name to find.
            If oTOCStyle.Style = "UserDefined Para Style" Then
               ' Remove the style from the TOC HeadingStyle collection.
               oTOCStyle.Delete
            End If
         Next
End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products

listed at the beginning of this article.

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

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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