HOWTO: View Microsoft Word Toolbars Using OLE Control

ID: Q112044

The information in this article applies to:

- Standard and Professional Editions of Microsoft Visual Basic for

  Windows, version 3.0

- Microsoft Word for Windows, version 6.0

SUMMARY

This article shows by example how to make a Visual Basic program display Microsoft Word version 6.0 toolbars. It is not possible to display the toolbars using the OLE control alone, so the following example uses an OLE object in combination with the OLE control.

MORE INFORMATION

When editing a Microsoft Word document that is in an OLE control, you may find it helpful to use the Microsoft Word toolbars. However, if you close all your toolbars, there is no way to use the OLE control alone to get the toolbars back. The following example shows how to access the Word toolbars after closing them.

Step-by-Step Example

1. Start Visual Basic or from the File menu, choose New Project (ALT, F, N)

   if Visual Basic is already running. Form1 is created by default.

2. Add an MSOLE2 control (OLE1) to Form1. When the Insert Object dialog box

   asks what type of object to insert, choose the Create From File option.
   and select a Microsoft Word .DOC file.

3. Set the SizeMode property of the OLE1 control to 1 (Stretch).

4. Add a command button (Command1) to Form1.

5. Add the following code to the click event of the Command1 button:

      Sub Command1_Click()
         Dim wbObject As Object
         ole1.Action = 7
         Set wbObject = CreateObject("Word.basic")
         wbObject.ViewToolbars "Standard", , , , , , , 1
      End Sub

6. Run the program.

7. Double-click the OLE1 control. If you see the toolbars, close them and

   press the ESC key to return control to Visual Basic. Double-click the
   OLE1 control again. This time the toolbars are gone. Now click the
   Command1 button to bring up the Standard toolbar. To bring up any of
   the other toolbars from this point, move the mouse pointer over the
   Standard toolbar. Then click the right mouse button, and choose the
   toolbar you want.

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Last Reviewed: January 6, 1999