need macro to turn off drawing canvas...Word 2003

[Sherrie Deen]

I need some help writing a macro to turn off the drawing
canvas, if the user has it enabled.

We have a rev bar button and if the drawing canvas is on,
then it won't work the way the user expects it to, so I
thought if I could have Word check to see if it is on
then Word can turn it off, then let the user draw the rev
bar line.

Can anyone help?

Thanks so much.
Sherrie Deen

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Sherrie,

A useful way to figure out something like this is to start
the macro recorder, change the setting, then look at the
macro.

Granted, sometimes it's difficult to guess which an option
might be, but there's always F1 (Help). This is the one
you're looking for

Options.AutoCreateNewDrawings = False

I need some help writing a macro to turn off the drawing
canvas, if the user has it enabled.

We have a rev bar button and if the drawing canvas is on,
then it won't work the way the user expects it to, so I
thought if I could have Word check to see if it is on
then Word can turn it off, then let the user draw the rev
bar line.

Can anyone help?

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun
8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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