Q196964: WD97: Visual Basic 3.0 Does Not Support Named Arguments

Article: Q196964
Product(s): Word 97 for Windows
Version(s): WINDOWS:2.0,97
Operating System(s): 
Keyword(s): kbdta word97
Last Modified: 14-NOV-2000

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The information in this article applies to:

- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows 
- Microsoft Access 2.0 
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SUMMARY
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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
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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
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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

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Keywords          : kbdta word97 
Technology        : kbWordSearch kbAccessSearch kbWord97 kbWord97Search kbAccess200 kbZNotKeyword2
Version           : WINDOWS:2.0,97
Issue type        : kbhowto

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