WD: Manage Fields Dialog Box Returns Incorrect Values

ID: Q177617

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition

SYMPTOMS

When you use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code to display the built-in Microsoft Word dialog box called "Manage Fields," a value of -1 is returned when you click either OK or Cancel.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article. We are researching this problem and will post new information here in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

MORE INFORMATION

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The following sample Visual Basic macro (Sub procedure) demonstrates the problem described in the "Symptoms" section of this article.


   Sub ShowManageFields()
      ' Show the dialog box.
      x = Dialogs(wdDialogToolsManageFields).Show
      ' The value of x returns -1 when OK or Cancel is clicked.
      Msgbox x
   End Sub

In this example, clicking Cancel should return a value of 0 and clicking OK should return a value of -1. However, both OK and Cancel return a value of -1.

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 OFF98 vba header record delimiter mail merge

Keywords : kbcode kbprg FmsProb
Version : MACINTOSH:98; WINDOWS:97
Platform : MACINTOSH WINDOWS
Issue type : kbbug