Article ID: 293092
Article Last Modified on 1/31/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Office Word 2003
- Microsoft Word 2002 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 2000 Standard Edition
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
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SYMPTOMS
When you are automating another program with Microsoft Visual Basic or Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, you may receive an error message similar to the following:
CAUSE
When you are automating a Microsoft Office program, it is possible to call one of the server's objects without referencing the program object. The code may work once, or it may work when you step through it, but the code returns the error message when you run it from another program.
RESOLUTION
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290140 OFFXP: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles
When you write code against the server object reference, make sure to include the variable reference in calls to the server's internal objects.
The following sample code displays the correct syntax:
Sub MyMacro()
Dim x As Word.Application
Set x = New Word.Application
'The following line now contains a reference to the application
' object "x".
x.Selection.Text = "test"
End Sub
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