WD97: Visual Basic 3.0 Does Not Support Named Arguments

ID: Q196964

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
Microsoft Access 2.0

SUMMARY

When you use a Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 application, you cannot call a Visual Basic for Applications or WordBasic instruction using named arguments. Instead, you must identify these arguments by position using commas as placeholders.

NOTE: Visual Basic 4.0 supports named arguments.

Word 97 Visual Basic for Applications

The following example shows the Visual Basic for Applications syntax as it might appear in a Visual Basic for Applications macro in Word:

   Documents.Open FileName:="""table calculation.doc""", _
   ConfirmConversions:= False, ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
   PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _
   WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", _
   Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto

Syntax:

   expression.Open(FileName, ConfirmConversions, ReadOnly,
   AddToRecentFiles, PasswordDocument, PasswordTemplate, Revert,
   WritePasswordDocument, WritePasswordTemplate, Format)

To use this instruction in a Visual Basic 3.0 procedure, you would write:

   WordObj.Documents.Open "C:\Test.doc", False, False, False,,, False,,, 0

The following Visual Basic procedure opens a Word Document as read-only with the file name appearing on the MRU (Most Recently Used) list on the File menu.

   Sub Command1_Click ()
      Dim WordObj As Object
      Set WordObj = CreateObject("Word.Basic")
      WordObj.FileOpen "D:\WINWORD\MYDOC.DOC", , 1, 1
   End Sub

MORE INFORMATION

If you want to leave out an argument, you must indicate the missing argument with a comma. Trailing commas at the end of an instruction can be omitted. In the example above, it is not necessary to add additional commas after the final argument.

Additional query words: wordcon ole automation word basic object container position vba

Keywords          : kbdta word97 
Version           : WINDOWS:2.0,97
Platform          : WINDOWS
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: February 15, 1999