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WD97: Error Using Border Constants with Font.Borders

Article ID: 166497

Article Last Modified on 1/19/2007

Microsoft Word 97 Standard Edition

This article was previously published under Q166497

SYMPTOMS

When you attempt to apply borders to selected characters using Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications, the following error occurs:

Run-time error '5941': The requested member of the collection does not exist.

CAUSE

By design, character borders will only take 1 or the wdBorderTop constant as arguments because the character borders count equals 1.

For example, the following Visual Basic for Applications commands will cause the error to occur if you attempt to designate a right border for a selected character:

   Selection.Font.Borders(wdBorderRight).LineStyle _
   =WdLineStyleThickThinSmallGap

WORKAROUND

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To work around this problem, use either of the following lines of code to apply the border style to a selected character:

   Selection.Font.Borders(1).LineStyle = WdLineStyleThickThinSmallGap

-or-

   Selection.Font.Borders(wdBorderTop).LineStyle = _
   WdLineStyleThickThinSmallGap

MORE INFORMATION

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

173707 OFF97: 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

STATUS

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

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