WD97: GetAllSettings Returns Type Mismatch

ID: Q162520

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you use the Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications GetAllSettings function to return a list of key settings and their respective values, you may receive the following error message:

Run-time error '13': Type Mismatch

CAUSE

If the value for "appname" or "section" does not exist in the registry, the variable is uninitialized, and the Visual Basic Editor returns the "Type Mismatch" error.

WORKAROUND

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To work around this error, use a Visual Basic for Applications macro similar to the following to verify that registry values exist:


Sub GetAllSettingsExample()
   Dim vMySet As Variant
   Dim iCount As Integer
   ' Get registry settings.
   vMySet = GetAllSettings(AppName:="MyProjectName", _
      Section:="MySection")
   ' Make sure the variable is not empty.
   If Not IsEmpty(vMySet) Then
      'Display the Key Names and Values.
      For iCount = LBound(vMySet, 1) To UBound(vMySet, 1)
         MsgBox vMySet(iCount, 0), vMySet(iCount, 1)
      Next
   End If
End Sub

STATUS

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

MORE INFORMATION

The Visual Basic for Applications GetAllSettings function returns a list of key settings and their respective values (originally created with SaveSetting) from a user-defined entry in the Windows registry. This list is returned to a Variant two-dimensional array, whose contents are a set of strings containing all the key settings in the specified section and their corresponding values.

Syntax

GetAllSettings (appname, section)

The GetAllSettings function syntax has these named arguments:


Part      Description
-----------------------------------------------------------------
appname   Required. String expression containing the name of the
          application or project whose key settings are requested.

section   Required. String expression containing the name of the section
          whose key settings are requested. GetAllSettings returns a
          Variant whose contents are a two-dimensional array of strings
          containing all the key settings in the specified section and
          their corresponding values.

For more information about GetAllSettings, click the Office Assistant while in the Visual Basic Editor, type "GetAllSettings", click Search, and then click to view GetAllSettings Function.

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q176476 OFF: Office Assistant Not Answering Visual Basic Questions

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

Q173707 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:

Q163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications

Additional query words: wordcon vb vba vbe

Keywords : kbdta kbdtacode kbmacroexample word8 word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug