Word 2007 VBA Help documentation inconsistency

[Julian Ladbury]

The Word 2007 Help for 'Variable.Value' states 'Setting the Value property to
a string longer than 255 characters generates an error.' This is not true. I
can successfully add document variables up to 65280 bytes in all versions
from 2000 on.

Help for the Value property in prior versions includes Variable,
AutoCorrectEntry and AutoTextEntry objects in a single topic, and states
there is a 255-byte limit for for AutoCorrectEntry and AutoTextEntry values.

I suspect the 2007 help for Variable.Value inadvertently copied this
information across.

Suggestion: correct the Help for Variable.Value in 2007 (and 2010 if the
error has been carried forward)

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[Colbert Zhou [MSFT]]

So you mean about this documentation,
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb225773.aspx

Thank you Julian for reporting this. I will test it and report it to the
content team.


Best regards,
Ji Zhou
Microsoft Newsgroup Support Team

 

[Julian Ladbury]

Colbert,

I had forgotten about the MSDN Library whose link you mention. That does of
course need consideration; but it was the Help in the Word 2007 VBA IDE I
was referring to.

Julian