Article ID: 182480
Article Last Modified on 9/11/2002
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh
This article was previously published under Q182480
SYMPTOMS
When you run a Visual Basic for Applications macro in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition, your macro may behave incorrectly if it accesses the Parent property of a Style object ("Styles.Parent").
CAUSE
This may occur because the Parent property of a Style object is different in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition than it is in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel:
Version(s) Parent Property of Style Object Returns
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Microsoft Excel 98 a Workbook object
Microsoft Excel 5.0 the Application object
WORKAROUND
If your macro contains code that accesses the Parent property of a Style object, and you expect the Parent property to return the Application object, you must remove "Parent" from your macro and replace it with Application. If you do this, the macro will work correctly in Microsoft Excel versions 5.0 and 98.
For example, assume your macro contains the following line of code:
X = ActiveWorkbook.Styles(1).Parent.Name
You would change this line to:
X = ActiveWorkbook.Styles(1).Application.Name
STATUS
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition. The behavior in earlier versions of Microsoft Excel is incorrect.
MORE INFORMATION
In Microsoft Excel, almost every type of object has a Parent property. The Parent property of an object returns the larger object that contains it. For example, ActiveCell.Parent returns the worksheet that contains the active cell.
In earlier versions of Microsoft Excel, the Parent property of a Style object is the Application object ("Microsoft Excel"). This is actually incorrect; the Parent property of a Style object should be the Workbook object that actually contains the style. This change is incorporated in Microsoft Excel 98 Macintosh Edition.
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