WD98: Paragraph.Border.Linestyle Incorrect After Applying Shadow (183310)


The information in this article applies to:

  • Microsoft Word 98 Macintosh Edition
This article was previously published under Q183310

SYMPTOMS

When you apply both 3-D borders and shadowing to a paragraph, then use the LineStyle property to return the type of borders applied for top, bottom, left, and right sides of the border for that paragraph, the returned values for bottom and right borders are wdLineStyleEngrave3D (or 22). The expected returned values would be wdLineStyleEmboss3D (or 21).

CAUSE

Microsoft provides programming examples for illustration only, without warranty either expressed or implied. This includes, but is not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose. This article assumes that you are familiar with the programming language that is being demonstrated and with the tools that are used to create and to debug procedures. Microsoft support engineers can help explain the functionality of a particular procedure, but they will not modify these examples to provide added functionality or construct procedures to meet your specific requirements. The following example Visual Basic for Applications macro demonstrates this problem. The macro first applies 3-D borders to a paragraph and then applies a paragraph shadow. A loop is set to return the values of the type of border applied to each side of the paragraph. 
   Sub ParaShadowBorder()
      Set oBorders = ActiveDocument.Paragraphs(1).Borders
      oBorders.OutsideLineStyle = wdLineStyleEmboss3D
      oBorders.Shadow = True
      For Each Border In oBorders
         MsgBox Border.LineStyle
      Next Border
   End Sub

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

181058 OFF98: How to Run Sample Code from Knowledge Base Articles

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

Modification Type:MajorLast Reviewed:6/17/2005
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