KB182181 - WD98: Macro to Determine Whether a Form Field Exists

Article ID: 182181

Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005

Microsoft Word 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q182181

SUMMARY

This article describes how to use Microsoft Visual Basic for Applications to determine whether a form field exists in a Microsoft Word document.

MORE INFORMATION

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. To determine whether a form field exists in a document, you can use the Exists method. The following sample Visual Basic for Applications macro will determine whether the form field named Text1 exists in the current or active document:

   Sub DoesFormFieldExist()
      If ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Exists("Text1") Then
         MsgBox "The form field Text1 does exist."
      Else
         MsgBox "The form field Text1 does not exist."
      End If
   End Sub

For more information about the Exists method, click the Office Assistant while in the Visual Basic Editor, type Exists method, click Search, and then click to view "Exists method."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If the Assistant is not able to answer your query, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

179216 OFF98: How to Use the Microsoft Office Installer Program

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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