OLE Automation: Specifying a Command Button from Visual Basic

ID: Q105581

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word for Windows, versions 6.0, 6.0a, 6.0c
Microsoft Word for Windows 95, version 7.0

SUMMARY

Using a Microsoft Visual Basic application, it is possible to run a WordBasic instruction with command button parameters. Boolean "true" and "false" values are used to specify command buttons.

For example:

   ToolsMacro .Name = "MacroName", .Run

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

   WordObj.ToolsMacro "MacroName", True

The "True" value is the Visual Basic equivalent to choosing/specifying the Run command button. You can use the "False" value or omit a command button argument to not choose a command button. When calling WordBasic instructions from Visual Basic you must identify WordBasic arguments by position using commas as placeholders.

The following Visual Basic procedure opens the Test macro for editing (the equivalent of ToolsMacro .Name = "Test", .Edit).

WARNING: ANY USE BY YOU OF THE CODE PROVIDED IN THIS ARTICLE IS AT YOUR OWN RISK. Microsoft provides this macro code "as is" without warranty of any kind, either express or implied, including but not limited to the implied warranties of merchantability and/or fitness for a particular purpose.

Sub Command1_Click ()

Dim WordObj As Object Set WordObj = CreateObject("Word.Basic") WordObj.ToolsMacro "Test", , True

End Sub

If you remove the comma before True, the instruction will run the Test macro. For example:

   WordObj.ToolsMacro "Test", True

KBCategory: kbmacro KBSubcategory: Additional query words: 6.0 ole automation word basic word6 6.0a 6.0c 7.0 word95 word7 winword object position visual basic true

Keywords          : kbole kbmacro
Version           : 6.0 6.0a 6.0c 7.0
Platform          : WINDOWS

Last Reviewed: February 6, 1998