WD: How to Obtain the Word for Windows Type Library

ID: Q143434

The information in this article applies to:

SUMMARY

Word 97

The object library or type library is included with Word 97. The file name is Msword8.olb.

Each Office 97 program provides a file called an object library, or type library, that contains information about the objects, properties, methods, events, and built-in constants it uses. You can use a the Object Browser to look at the information in this file and to browse the object model it describes.

To open the Object Browser in the Visual Basic Editor, use the following steps::

1. In Word, point to Macro on the Tools menu, and click Visual Basic 

   Editor.
2. On the View menu, click Object Browser.

3. From the Object Browser window, in the Project/Library box, click the 

   object library whose objects you want to see (for example: Word), or
   click <All Libraries> to view the objects of all referenced libraries.

   NOTE: If the object library whose objects you want to examine doesn't
   appear in the Project/Library box, you must create a reference to the
   object library using the References dialog box (Tools menu).
For Help on any of the Classes or Members, select the item, and then click the Help (question mark) button on the Object Browser toolbar.

Word 6.0, 7.0

The Microsoft Word type library for Microsoft Word for Windows provides you with the U.S. object model of the WordBasic object.

The following table describes the available type library files. 

   For this version         Obtain this           Which contains
   of Word for Windows      executable file       the following files
   ---------------------------------------------------------------------

   Version 7.0 or 7.0a      Wrd95lib.exe          Wb70en32.tlb (10-11-95)
                                                  Readme.txt (08-29-95)

   Version 6.0, 6.0a,       Wrd60lib.exe          Wb60en.tlb (08-08-94)
   or 6.0c                                        Readme.txt (02-10-95)
For more information about how to use the type library, obtain the file, extract its contents, and read the Readme.txt file that accompanies the executable.

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Software Library: 

 ~ Wrd95lib.exe (size: 64166 bytes) 
 ~ Wrd60lib.exe (size: 59651 bytes)
For more information about downloading files from the Microsoft Software Library, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 

   ARTICLE-ID: Q119591
   TITLE     : How to Obtain Microsoft Support Files from Online Services
KBCategory: kbinterop kbprg KBSubcategory:

Additional query words: 6.0 6.0a 6.0c 7.0 7.0a 8.0 97 word6 word7 word95 word8 word97 winword typelib typlib 

Version           : 6.0 6.0a 6.0c 7.0 7.0a 97
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: January 20, 1999