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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / April 2007Why "String too long" (error 4609)?
Context: WinXP pro, Office 2003 Busy filling a Word form from an Outlook VbaProject module. The error occurs when assigning a 300-byte string value to a Text Form Field with a declared max length of 400 Extract from code: Dim WDApp As Word.Application Dim nam As String, val As String ' nam and val get a value WDApp.ActiveDocument.FormFields(nam).Result = val Why the error?  SignaturePeter J. Veger, Best Netherlands Hi Peter, Try: WDApp.ActiveDocument.Bookmarks(nam).Range.Fields(1).Result.Text = val Cheers Signaturemacropod [MVP - Microsoft Word] ------------------------- > Context: WinXP pro, Office 2003 > Busy filling a Word form from an Outlook VbaProject module. [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] > > Why the error? Thank you for your suggestion: it works out OK. But my question also is: why did I get an error?? (Result is a field wit data type String, val is a value with data type String, and a String valuein VBA can be at least 64K characters long.) SignaturePeter J. Veger, Best Netherlands > Hi Peter, > [quoted text clipped - 15 lines] >> >> Why the error? The answer to "why?" is "It's a bug that's been in VBA since at least Word 2000". See http://www.word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/SetLongFmFldResult.htm . -- Regards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. >Thank you for your suggestion: it works out OK. >But my question also is: why did I get an error?? [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] >>> >>> Why the error? Thanks, I thought it a bug, and am glad to now know it for sure. And next time I will first search the FAQs-website. SignaturePeter J. Veger, Best Netherlands > The answer to "why?" is "It's a bug that's been in VBA since at least > Word 2000". See [quoted text clipped - 31 lines] >>>> >>>> Why the error? |
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