Article ID: 182101
Article Last Modified on 8/10/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q182101
SYMPTOMS
When you run a macro to retrieve a property of the Comment object, and if no comments exist in the document, you get the following error message:
Compile Error:
Method or data member not found.
CAUSE
Your document does not contain comments.
WORKAROUND
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To avoid this error message, you can test for the presence of comments in your document using the following sample Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro:
Sub CommentExist() If ActiveDocument.Comments.Count > 0 Then MsgBox "Word found Comments in your document." Else MsgBox "Word found no Comments in your document." End If End Sub
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 for Applications
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