WD97: Error - Cyclic References Of Projects Not Allowed

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to add a project as a reference in Visual Basic for Applications, you receive the following error message:

   Cyclic references of projects not allowed

CAUSE

You are attempting to reference a project for which a reference already exists.

MORE INFORMATION

For example, the global template Normal.dot is the default underlying template for all new documents. Normal.dot contains the Visual Basic for Applications project, "Normal."

When you create a new document based on the Word default template Normal.dot, the new document automatically inherits a reference to the "Normal" project. Also, each document is, in itself, a Visual Basic for Applications project.

Because the document project contains a reference to the normal project, if you attempt to create a reference to the document project from the "Normal" project, the error described earlier in this article will occur.

Also, the cyclic reference error will occur if you have made a reference to a project, for example, Project2 in Project1, and you then try to make a reference to Project1 in Project2.

For example, either project may have a reference to the other:

• Project1 can reference Project2

  -or-

• Project2 can reference Project1

• Project1 with a reference to Project2

  -and-

• Project2 with a reference to Project1

REFERENCES

For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q163435
   TITLE     : VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for 
               Applications