Article ID: 160757
Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007
APPLIES TO
- Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition
This article was previously published under Q160757
SYMPTOMS
When you run a macro that passes True as a parameter to the
NewTemplate
method of the
Dialogs property, you receive the following error message:
Run-time error '9118':
Parameter value was out of acceptable range.
CAUSE
The
NewTemplate method only takes 0 or 1 as valid parameters. Your macro
may be using True for the parameter and the value for "True" is -1.
The following Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications code demonstrates
this problem:
Set dlgDialog = Dialogs(wdDialogFileNew)
dlgDialog.NewTemplate = True ' <- Attempts to set a value of -1.
dlgDialog.Show
RESOLUTION
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To resolve this problem, use 1 as the parameter for the
NewTemplate method
instead of True or -1. For example:
oDialog.NewTemplate = 1
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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