Article ID: 181443
Article Last Modified on 11/23/2006
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q181443
SYMPTOMS
When you use a macro to insert page breaks in a document, and then return a page count by using the BuiltInDocumentProperties property, the number of pages returned may be incorrect.
CAUSE
The document needs to be repaginated before you return the number of pages.
WORKAROUND
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To work around this problem, use the Repaginate method to force document repagination before retrieving the BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages) property.
Example:
Sub GetNumberOfPages()
ActiveDocument.Repaginate
MsgBox ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties(wdPropertyPages)
End Sub
STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.
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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