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XL97: Modules Inserted Manually Are Not in Modules Collection

Article ID: 183168

Article Last Modified on 6/17/2005

Microsoft Excel 98 for Macintosh

This article was previously published under Q183168

SYMPTOMS

When you use a Visual Basic for Applications macro to determine the members in the Modules collection in a workbook, some Visual Basic modules may be excluded from the collection.

CAUSE

Any modules that you manually insert into a project in the Visual Basic Editor are not added to the Modules collection. Only modules that are added by using the Add method for the Module object are members of the Modules collection.

For backward compatibility, the Modules collection is available in Microsoft Excel 98; however, modules that you add manually are not added to the collection.

WORKAROUND

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 return all components of a project, use the VBComponents collection of the project. For example, the following macro loops through all of the components in the active project and displays a message box with the name of each component:

   Sub Project_Components()
      For Each x In Application.VBE.ActiveVBProject.VBComponents
         MsgBox x.Name
      Next
   End Sub

STATUS

This behavior is by design of Microsoft Excel 98.

REFERENCES

For more information about Modules, click the Office Assistant, type What is a module?, click Search, and then click to view "Module and Class Module Commands(Insert Menu)."

NOTE: If the Assistant is hidden, click the Office Assistant button on the Standard toolbar. If Microsoft Help is not installed on your computer, please see the following article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

179216 OFF98: How to Use the Microsoft Office Installer Program

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