WD: OLE: Visual Basic 3.0 Does Not Support Named Arguments

SUMMARY

When you use a Microsoft Visual Basic 3.0 application, you cannot call a Visual Basic for Applications or WordBasic instruction using named arguments. Instead, you must identify these arguments by position using commas as placeholders.

NOTE: Visual Basic 4.0 supports named arguments.

Word 97 Visual Basic for Applications

The following example shows the Visual Basic for Applications syntax as it might appear in a Visual Basic for Applications macro in Word.

   Documents.Open FileName:="""table calculation.doc""", _
   ConfirmConversions:= False, ReadOnly:=False, AddToRecentFiles:=False, _
   PasswordDocument:="", PasswordTemplate:="", Revert:=False, _
   WritePasswordDocument:="", WritePasswordTemplate:="", _
   Format:=wdOpenFormatAuto
				

Syntax for the above example

expression.Open(FileName, ConfirmConversions, ReadOnly, AddToRecentFiles,
PasswordDocument, PasswordTemplate, Revert, WritePasswordDocument,
WritePasswordTemplate, Format)
				

To use this instruction in a Visual Basic 3.0 procedure, you would write:

   WordObj.Documents.Open "C:\Test.doc", False, False, False,,, False,,, 0
				

WordBasic

The following example shows the WordBasic syntax as it might appear in a Word macro. The instruction opens the document as a read-only file and adds the name to the MRU (Most Recently Used) list on the File menu.

   FileOpen .Name = "D:\Winword\Mydoc.doc", .ReadOnly = 1, AddtoMru = 1
				

To use this instruction in a Visual Basic procedure, you would write:

   WordObj.FileOpen "D:\Winword\Mydoc.doc", , 1, 1
				

WordObj is an object variable that refers to WordBasic (the complete Visual Basic procedure is included below). The extra comma after the file name is a placeholder for the ConfirmConversions parameter.

WordBasic parameter syntax:

   FileOpen .Name = text [, .ConfirmConversions = number]
    [, .ReadOnly = number] [, .AddToMru = number] [, .PasswordDoc = text]
    [, .PasswordDot = text] [, .Revert = number]
    [, .WritePasswordDoc = text] [, .WritePasswordDot = text]
				

The following Visual Basic procedure opens a Word Document as read-only with the file name appearing on the MRU (Most Recently Used) list on the File menu.

   Sub Command1_Click ()
      Dim WordObj As Object
      Set WordObj = CreateObject("Word.Basic")
      WordObj.FileOpen "D:\WINWORD\MYDOC.DOC", , 1, 1
   End Sub