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MS Office Forum / Word / Programming / September 2005Built in Word dialog problem
I'm trying to use on of Word's built in dialogs, namely the table auto-format dialog. Reading up on MSDN, this should work: Word.Dialog dlg = Application.Dialogs[Word.WdWordDialog.wdDialogTableAutoFormat]; However, doing this I get the following error: "Microsoft Word: This method or property is not available because some or all of the current selection is not in a table." What am I doing wrong? Oh yes, forgot to mention, using WinXP SP2 and Word 2003 SP1. > I'm trying to use on of Word's built in dialogs, namely the table auto-format > dialog. Reading up on MSDN, this should work: [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > > What am I doing wrong? > Oh yes, forgot to mention, using WinXP SP2 and Word 2003 SP1. > [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] >> >> What am I doing wrong? When you execute that line of code, is the selection (insertion point) inside a table in the active document? That condition must be true in order to display that dialog from code. (In the UI you can use the Table > Table AutoFormat command to display the dialog when not in a table, but clicking OK immediately runs the Insert Table dialog. This is a special case in the UI and isn't available to code.) You can test this assumption by calling Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) -- however you have to mangle that to get the right syntax -- it returns True if the Selection is entirely within a table.  SignatureRegards, Jay Freedman Microsoft Word MVP FAQ: http://word.mvps.org No the selection isn't in a table. What I have is a dialog my end that allows someone to setup a table, with the added option of picking a pre-defined Word table style. What I wanted was a button on my dialog that would bring up the Word auto format dialog, so the user can see what style they're getting. Looks like I'll have to fall back to a dropdown with just the names of the styles in. Thanks for that. Haydn > > Oh yes, forgot to mention, using WinXP SP2 and Word 2003 SP1. > > [quoted text clipped - 22 lines] > get the right syntax -- it returns True if the Selection is entirely within > a table. |
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