WD97: Paragraph.Border.Linestyle Incorrect After Applying Shadow

ID: Q164009

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows

SYMPTOMS

When you apply both 3-D borders and shadowing to a paragraph, then use the LineStyle property to return the type of borders applied for top, bottom, left, and right sides of the border for that paragraph, the returned values for bottom and right borders are wdLineStyleEngrave3D (or 22). The expected returned values would be wdLineStyleEmboss3D (or 21).

CAUSE

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The following example Visual Basic for Applications macro demonstrates this problem. The macro first applies 3-D borders to a paragraph and then applies a paragraph shadow. A loop is set to return the values of the type of border applied to each side of the paragraph.


   Sub ParaShadowBorder()
      Set oBorders = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Borders
      oBorders.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleEmboss3D
      oBorders.Shadow = True
      For Each Border In oBorders
         MsgBox Border.LineStyle
      Next Border
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft is researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

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 : kbualink97 kbdta kbdtacode kbmacroexample word8 kbwordvba word97
Version : WINDOWS:97
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug