WD2000: VBA: CharacterWidth Property Returns 9999999

ID: Q210038

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 2000

SYMPTOMS

When you use the CharacterWidth property in its function form to return the width of a character or characters in a Visual Basic for Applications procedure, the value returned is 9999999.

CAUSE

You have installed the Japanese or Korean Input Method Editor (IME), and your macro has set the character width using the wdWidthFullWidth constant of the CharacterWidth property.

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

For more information about multilanguage features in Word, click Microsoft Word Help on the Help menu, type "Language" in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topics returned.

REFERENCES

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

Q226118 OFF2000: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: vba

Keywords : kbdta kbwordvba wd2000
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug