WordBasic call CountMacros always returns 3

[Uday]

I am working on application that uses "WordBasic" method calls.
One of the call it uses is "CountMacros".

I invoke the application with a word document that has macros "Macro1" and
"Macro2" as part of normal.dot template to perform some functionality.

Now the "CountMacros" call should return 5. But it doesnot do so.
I checked the macro names, it lists "ThisDocument", "NewMacros" and
"Module1" as the only macros available.

I am able to view as well as use the macros "Macro1" and "Macro2" in the
word document manually but not programatically.

I cannot change the "WordBasic" calls.

Can anyone help me out with reasons for such behavior? OR
Am I doing something wrong? OR
Do I need to do anything else to get the macros in my program?

Thanks in advance.

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Uday,

The behaviour od this changed when Word went from WordBasic to VBA in Word
97. WordBasic.CountMacros now counts modules, not macros.

I'm not aware of any reliable way of counting macros.

 

[Uday]

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for the information.

Where can I get such information regarding "WordBasic" calls and its
present functionality? Because my clients application code uses a lot of
"WordBasic" calls and the breaks when tested with Office > 97.
OR
Where can I find information regarding equivalent calls in VBA.?

Regards,
Uday.

 

[Peter]

Not to steal Jonathan's thunder, but I've done quite a bit of WordBasic conversion recently and I found the following MSDN page that lists WordBasic-to-VBA conversions to be quite helpful:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/d...us/vbawd10/html/wohowWordBasicEquivalents.asp

Watch for line breaks.

IIRC, I found that URL from w/in VBA help in Word. I think I hit F1 while highlighting a WordBasic statement, and got to the URL a couple of steps later.

hth,

-Peter

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Uday,

there is plenty of information in the VBA-Help.
Just search help for "Visual Basic".

Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
http://word.mvps.org/

 

[Uday]

Hi,

Thank you for the answers.

I shall try out at the conversion process and get back if anthing in need.

Regards,
Uday.

 

[Howard Kaikow]

See http://www.standards.com/index.html?WordBasic2VBA

 

[Uday]

Thank you, Howard kaikow.

See http://www.standards.com/index.html?WordBasic2VBA

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Uday

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for the information.

Where can I get such information regarding "WordBasic" calls and its
present functionality? Because my clients application code uses a lot of
"WordBasic" calls and the breaks when tested with Office > 97.

Take a look here


Most of the WordBasic methods are simply the old WordBasic commands

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Jonathan,

Thank you for the information.

Where can I get such information regarding "WordBasic" calls and its
present functionality? Because my clients application code uses a lot of
"WordBasic" calls and the breaks when tested with Office > 97.
OR
Where can I find information regarding equivalent calls in VBA.?

These articles will help

Making the transition from WordBasic to VBA
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/WordBasicToVBA.htm

Useful WordBasic commands that have no VBA equivalent
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/WordBasicCommands.htm

The methods of the WordBasic object are mainly the WordBasic command from
Word 95. The second of the articles contains a link to a location on the
Microsoft website where you can download the Word 95 Wordbasic Help file.