WD97: No Toolbars When Word Doc Activated from VB OLE Container

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you activate an OLE container as a Word Document object from within Microsoft Visual Basic, the Toolbars command on the View menu shows Standard, Formatting, and other toolbars selected. However, no toolbars display.

WORKAROUND

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Note: This example assumes you have already created a form in Microsoft Visual Basic and:

• The form contains an OLE container that has its Class property set to a Word Document object (Word.Document.8).

  -and-

• The form contains a command button.

  -and-

• A reference to the Microsoft Office 8.0 Object Library has been set.

  Follow these steps to add the Microsoft Office 8.0 Object Library reference:

      1. On the Project menu, click References.
  

      2. Under Available References, click to select the "Microsoft Office
         8.0 Object Library" check box.
  

      3. Click OK.
  

   Private Sub Command1_Click()

      Dim tbar As Object
      Dim iPrevBarPos As Integer

      OLE1.Action = 7

      ' Starts in-place activation for the object within the OLE container.
      Set tBar = OLE1.object

      ' Loop through each command bar to determine its visible attribute.
      For Each cBAr In tBar.CommandBars

         ' If the command bar should be visible...
         If cBar.Visible Then

            ' Make the command bar visible.
            ' NOTE: The Position property only works with the
            ' msoBarFloating constant in Visual Basic using in-place
            ' activation. All the other toolbar constants
            ' (msoBarTop, msoBarBottom, and so on) will not display the
            ' toolbar. Because of this, the toolbars cannot be docked
            ' within the OLE container.
            cBar.Position = msoBarFloating

            ' Sets the height of the specified command bar in pixels.
            cBar.Height = 25

            ' Sets the distance (in pixels) from the top edge of the
            ' specified command bar to the top edge of the screen.
            cBar.Top = iPrevBarPos + cBar.Height

            ' Get the top position of this bar to apply to height of next
            ' bar, so the command bars are stacked and not layered.
            iPrevBarPos = cBar.Top

            ' Sets the distance (in pixels) from the left edge of the
            ' specified command bar to the left edge of the screen.
            cBar.Left = 1

         End If

      Next

   End Sub

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for
               Applications