XL2000: Error Using For Each...Next Statement with OLE Object Type (213830)
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This article was previously published under Q213830 SYMPTOMS
If you use the For Each...Next statement in a Visual Basic module in
Microsoft Excel 2000, and you declare the variable used to iterate through the
elements of the collection as an OLE object type, such as MenuItem, you may
receive the following error message when you run the macro:
Run-time error '13':
Type mismatch
CAUSE
This behavior occurs only if an error is encountered while the objects are
being retrieved from the collection. This problem may occur with object
types that include MenuItem, Sheet, and DrawingObject.
For example, if you run the following procedure
Sub Show_Menu_Items()
Dim m as MenuItem
For Each m In Activemenubar.Menus("Tools").MenuItems
MsgBox m.Caption
Next
End Sub
and a command on the Tools menu contains a submenu, you will receive the
error message described in the "Symptoms" section of this article.
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To avoid this problem when you use the For Each...Next
statement in a Visual Basic module, declare the variable used to
iterate through the elements of the collection as Variant type, or
Object type instead of as an OLE object type, as in the following
example:
Sub Show_Menu_Items()
Dim m as Object
For Each m In ActiveMenuBar.Menus("Tools").MenuItems
MsgBox m.Caption
Next
End Sub
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. REFERENCESFor more information about For Each...Next statements, in the Visual Basic Editor, click Microsoft Visual Basic Help on the Help menu, type for each...next statement in the Office Assistant or the Answer Wizard, and then click Search to view the topic.
Modification Type: | Minor | Last Reviewed: | 10/11/2006 |
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Keywords: | kbbug kbdtacode kberrmsg kbmacro kbpending KB213830 |
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