WD97: Creating Hyperlink Deletes Object Reference (165923)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q165923 SYMPTOMS
When your Visual Basic for Applications macro creates an object variable
that is set to reference a picture object, and if your macro later anchors
a hyperlink to the picture object, the object reference is deleted and the
following error message appears:
Run-time error '5825': Object has been deleted
For example, the following Visual Basic for Applications macro adds a
hyperlink to an already linked picture. The hyperlink is "anchored" to
the picture object referenced by the InLine Picture object variable oILPic.
Once the hyperlink is added, the object variable reference oILPic is
deleted.
Sub DoInLineShapeHyperlink()
Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oILPic As InlineShape
Dim oHLink As Hyperlink
Dim sPicFile As String
Dim sLinkFile as String
sPicFile = "<Your Graphic File Path and Name>"
sLinkFile = "<Your HyperLink File Path and Name>"
' Create new document.
Set oDoc = Documents.Add
' Insert a picture.
Set oILPic = oDoc.InlineShapes.AddPicture _
(Range:=oDoc.Content, FileName:=sPicFile, LinkToFile:=True)
' Add a hyperlink for the picture.
oDoc.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=oILPic.Range, Address:=sLinkFile
' The error occurs here because oILPic is no longer valid.
Set oHLink = oILPic.Hyperlink
End Sub
CAUSE
The "Object has been deleted" error message appears because the macro
has attempted to access an object that has been deleted. The object
may have been deleted deliberately, such as with the Delete method, or it
may have been deleted as a side effect of another operation, such as when a
frame is added around an inline shape, which deletes the original inline
shape and creates a copy of it in the frame.
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To work around this problem, reference the object directly, as in the
following example:
Private Sub DoInLineShapeHyperlink()
Dim oDoc As Document
Dim oILPic As InlineShape
Dim oHLink As Hyperlink
Dim sPicFile As String
Dim sLinkFile as String
sPicFile = "<Your Graphic File Path and Name>"
sLinkFile = "<Your HyperLink File Path and Name>"
' Create new document.
Set oDoc = Documents.Add
' Insert a picture.
Set oILPic = oDoc.InlineShapes.AddPicture _
(Range:=oDoc.Content, FileName:= sPicFile, LinkToFile:=True)
' Add a hyperlink for the picture.
oDoc.Hyperlinks.Add Anchor:=oILPic.Range, Address:=sLinkFile
' Use the InlineShapes Property to reference the object.
Set oHLink = oDoc.InlineShapes(1).Hyperlink
End Sub
REFERENCES
For more information about getting help with Visual Basic for Applications,
please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:
163435 VBA: Programming Resources for Visual Basic for Applications
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