SYMPTOMS
If you attempt to use Visual Basic for Applications to change the
properties of a document, you may receive one of the following error
messages:
Run-time error '4248':
This command is not available because a document window is not active.
-or-
Run-time error '4605':
Bad File Name
-or-
Run-time error '5941':
The requested member of the collection does not exist.
WORKAROUND
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The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macros demonstrates how
to change the value of the
Title field in the
Properties dialog box.
This following sample includes code to trap the error, in case there are no
documents open, and display a message:
Sub ChangeDocProperties()
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Title") = "My Title"
ErrHandler:
If Err <> 0 Then
' Display an error message.
MsgBox Err.Description
End If
End Sub
The following sample includes code to:
- Trap the error, in case there are no documents open.
- Within the error trap, create a new document.
- Resume execution at the line that caused the error.
Sub ChangeDocProperties()
On Error GoTo ErrHandler
ActiveDocument.BuiltInDocumentProperties("Title") = "My Title"
ErrHandler:
If Err <> 0 Then
Documents.Add
Resume
End If
End Sub