WD97: Run Time Error 4366 Using Application.Run Command (190235)
The information in this article applies to:
- Microsoft Word 97 for Windows
This article was previously published under Q190235 SYMPTOMS
When you run a Visual Basic For Applications macro containing the
"Application.Run Macroname:=" command in Microsoft Word or in another
Office program to automate Word, you may receive the following error
message:
Run Time error '4366' : Unable to run the specified macro.
CAUSE
You have included a template name as part of the Macroname argument string.
RESOLUTION
Remove the template name from the Macroname argument.
WORKAROUND
To avoid naming conflicts among referenced projects, give your procedures
unique names, so that you can call a procedure without specifying a project
or module.
STATUSMicrosoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. MORE INFORMATION
In the online Help, the Run method states that you can use the template name
in the Macroname argument string, and then it shows the following examples
as valid statements:
Application.Run "Normal.Module1.MAIN"
Application.Run "MyProject.MyModule.MyProcedure"
Application.Run "'My Document.doc'!ThisModule.ThisProcedure"
Visual Basic for Applications assigns names to macros in the following
order:
project.module.procedure.
When Visual Basic for Applications accesses the Microsoft Word Object
model, a project can be either a template or document with stored
procedures. In Visual Basic for Applications, the Word projects are named
in the following manner:
Normal - all modules stored in the Normal.dot
TemplateProject - all modules store in the first file in the Startup
folder (if more than one template is in the startup
folder, Word uses the one that was copied
to the folder first and not by the alphabetical
listing order).
Project - additional startup templates, the template the open
file is based on, or an open saved document with a
module.
The following illustration describes how Visual Basic for Applications
handles Microsoft Word macros of the same name or macros and modules of the
same name in different template and document projects that are active.
In Microsoft Word, if you open a document named MyDoc.doc that is based on
the template MyTemp.dot, both documents have a module called "Newmacros"
and a macro called "MyMacro." At Startup, a template called "MyStart.dot"
loads with the "Normal.dot" global template. Both of these templates have a
module called "Newmacros", and there is a macro called "MyMacro" in the
module.
With the three templates and one document active in Microsoft Word, when
the "Macro" dialog box appears, you see the following lines of code:
Normal.NewMacros.Mymacro
Project.NewMacros.Mymacro
Project1.NewMacros.Mymacro
TemplateProject.NewMacros.Mymacro
Open the Visual Basic Editor by pressing ALT+F11. Then press CTRL+R to
view the following in Project Explorer:
Normal(Normal)
Project(MyTemp)
Project(MyDoc)
TemplateProject(MyStart)
If you want to run the macro in MyStart.dot, write your code as follows:
Application.Run "TemplateProject.NewMacro.macro1"
Normal.NewMacros.Mymacro = Normal.dot
Project.NewMacros.Mymacro = MyTemp.dot
Project1.NewMacros.Mymacro = MyDoc.doc
Modification Type: | Major | Last Reviewed: | 11/14/2000 |
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Keywords: | kbbug kbprb KB190235 |
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