WD97: Document Must Be Open to Change Properties by Macro

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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:

1. Trap the error, in case there are no documents open.
2. Within the error trap, create a new document.
3. 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