WD2000: Run Time Error 4366 Using Application.Run Command

ID: Q198840

The information in this article applies to:

SYMPTOMS

When you run a Visual Basic For Applications macro containing the "Application.Run Macroname:=" command in Microsoft Word or in another Office program to automate Word, the following error message may appear:

Run Time error '4366' : Unable to run the specified macro.


CAUSE

You have included a template name as part of the Macroname argument string.


WORKAROUND

To avoid naming conflicts among referenced projects, give your procedures unique names, so that you can call a procedure without specifying a project or module.


RESOLUTION

Remove the template name from the Macroname argument.


STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.


MORE INFORMATION

Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language being demonstrated and the tools used to create and debug procedures. Microsoft support professionals can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific needs. If you have limited programming experience, you may want to contact the Microsoft fee-based consulting line at (800) 936-5200. For more information about the support options available from Microsoft, please see the following page on the World Wide Web:

http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/refguide/

In the online help, the Run method states that you can use the template name in the Macroname argument string, and then it shows the following examples as valid statements: 

   Application.Run "Normal.Module1.MAIN"
   Application.Run "MyProject.MyModule.MyProcedure"
   Application.Run "'My Document.doc'!ThisModule.ThisProcedure"

Visual Basic for Applications assigns names to macros in the following order: 

   project.module.procedure.

When Visual Basic for Applications accesses the Microsoft Word Object model, a project can be either a template or document with stored procedures. In Visual Basic for Applications, the Word projects are named in the following manner:
Normal all modules stored in the Normal.dot
TemplateProject all modules stored in the first file in the Startup folder (if more than one template is in the Startup folder, Word uses the one that was copied to the folder first and not the alphabetical listing order)
Project additional startup templates, the template the open file is based on, or an open saved document with a module.

The following illustration describes how Visual Basic for Applications handles Microsoft Word macros of the same name or macros and modules of the same name in different template and document projects that are active.

In Microsoft Word, if you open a document named MyDoc.doc that is based on the template MyTemp.dot, both documents have a module called "Newmacros" and a macro called "MyMacro." At Startup, a template called "MyStart.dot" loads with the "Normal.dot" global template. Both of these templates have a module called "Newmacros", and there is a macro called "MyMacro" in the module.

With the three templates and one document active in Microsoft Word, when the Macro dialog box appears, you see the following lines of code:


   Normal.NewMacros.Mymacro
   Project.NewMacros.Mymacro
   Project1.NewMacros.Mymacro
   TemplateProject.NewMacros.Mymacro

Open the Visual Basic Editor by pressing ALT+F11. Then, press CTRL+R to view the following in Project Explorer:

Normal(Normal)
Project(MyTemp)
Project(MyDoc)
TemplateProject(MyStart)

If you want to run the macro in MyStart.dot, write your code as follows: 
Application.Run "TemplateProject.NewMacro.macro1"

- or - 

   Normal.NewMacros.Mymacro =  Normal.dot
   Project.NewMacros.Mymacro =  MyTemp.dot
   Project1.NewMacros.Mymacro =  MyDoc.doc

Additional query words: vb 


Keywords          : kbdta OffVBA kbmacroexample kbwordvba wd2000 
Version           : WINDOWS:2000
Platform          : WINDOWS 
Issue type        : kbbug

Last Reviewed: May 13, 1999