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SYMPTOMSWhen you run a Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications macro in Microsoft Excel, your macro may behave incorrectly if it accesses the Parent property of a Style object (Styles.Parent). CAUSE
This behavior may occur because the Parent property of a Style object changed in Microsoft Excel 97:
This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel. The behavior in versions of Microsoft Excel earlier than Excel 97 is incorrect. WORKAROUND
If your macro contains code that accesses the Parent property of a Style object, and you expect the Parent property to return the Application object, you must remove "Parent" from your macro and replace it with "Application". If you do this, the macro will work correctly in all versions of Microsoft Excel that contain Visual Basic for Applications.
You would change this line to:
MORE INFORMATION
In Microsoft Excel, almost every type of object has a Parent property. The Parent property of an object returns the larger object that contains it. For example, ActiveCell.Parent returns the worksheet that contains the active cell.
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