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SYMPTOMS
When you are using Microsoft Word to edit e-mail messages (in Microsoft Outlook 2000, on the Tools menu, click Options and then click the Mail Format tab) and you try to automate Word from another program, you may encounter problems processing some Word commands. For example, you may receive Automation errors such as "This method or property is not available" or other errors. CAUSEThis problem can occur when all of the following conditions are true:
For example, the following Visual Basic for Applications code sample may cause the following error message: if the current selection is within a WordMail message instead of the Word main document window:
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http://www.microsoft.com/mcsp/For more information about the support options available from Microsoft, please see the following page on the World Wide Web: http://www.microsoft.com/support/supportnet/overview/overview.aspTo determine whether the focus is in a WordMail message, use the Selection.Information property together with the FocusInMailHeader property to determine whether a WordMail instance or a Word instance has the focus. FocusInMailHeader PropertyThe FocusInMailHeader property returns True if the insertion point is in a WordMail header field (the To field, for example).Selection.Information PropertyUse the Selection.Information property to return information about the specified or current selection.The syntax of the Selection.Information property is Selection.Information(Type) ExampleThe following sample code demonstrates how to use these properties to determine whether WordMail or Word has the current focus: For more information about Information property, in the Visual Basic Editor, click
Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type Information property in
the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to
view the topic.For more information about FocusInMailHeader property, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type FocusInMailHeader property in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic. For more information about GetObject Function, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type GetObject Function in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic. REFERENCESFor additional information about using automation with Word, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q237337 WD2000: How to Use (OLE) Automation with WordFor more information about using the sample code in this article, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: Q212536 OFF2000: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles Additional query words: vba
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