WD2000: Converted WordBasic On Error Statements May Fail

CAUSE

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By design, the On Error statement in Visual Basic for Applications works differently from the way it does in WordBasic. In Visual Basic for Applications, On Error is not cleared when an error occurs. In WordBasic, the On Error statement is cleared, the error trap is reset, and your code continues to run.

Therefore, the following sample converted WordBasic code fails when an error occurs the second time.

Sub Main()
   ' Clear error trap. Set error trap.
   On Error GoTo -1: On Error GoTo ErrorTrap
   ' Loop 10 times.
   For i = 1 To 10
      ' Artificially raise an error.
      Err.Raise 5
ErrorTrap:
     ' Decision tree based on error returned.
     If Err.Number = 0 Then
         ' If no error occurred, do this...
         count_ = count_ + 1
     Else
         ' Else, if error occurred, do this...
         Err.Number = 0
     End If
   Next
End Sub
				

Sub Main()
   ' Loop 10 times.
   For i = 1 To 10
   ' Clear error trap. Set error trap.
   On Error GoTo -1: On Error GoTo ErrorTrap
      ' Artificially raise an error.
      Err.Raise 5
ErrorTrap:
     ' Decision tree based on error returned.
     If Err.Number = 0 Then
         ' If no error occurred, do this...
         count_ = count_ + 1
     Else
         ' Else if error occurred, do this...
         Err.Number = 0
     End If
   Next
End Sub