WD97: Error Using Border Constants with Font.Borders

• Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to apply borders to selected characters using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, the following error occurs:

   Run-time error '5941': The requested member of the collection does not
   exist.

CAUSE

By design, character borders will only take 1 or the wdBorderTop constant as arguments because the character borders count equals 1.

For example, the following Visual Basic for Applications commands will cause the error to occur if you attempt to designate a right border for a selected character:

   Selection.Font.Borders(wdBorderRight).LineStyle _
   =WdLineStyleThickThinSmallGap

WORKAROUND

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   Selection.Font.Borders(1).LineStyle = WdLineStyleThickThinSmallGap

    -or-

   Selection.Font.Borders(wdBorderTop).LineStyle = _
   WdLineStyleThickThinSmallGap

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

   ARTICLE-ID: Q173707
   TITLE     : OFF97: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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