Re: Arguments (I think that is what they are called)

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From: Greg Maxey (gmaxey_at_whamspammvps.org)
Date: 08/29/04 

Date: Sun, 29 Aug 2004 11:49:13 -0400

Peter,

I have Help installed, I just wasn't drilling down far enough. I found the
information that you mentioned. Thank you.

You are not the first to suggest I buy a book. I have a recommendation
(can't think of it right now) that I will look for next chance I get.

I have also been reading the Office 97 Programer's Guide as it relates to
Word. 

-- 
Greg Maxey
A peer in "peer to peer" support
Rockledge, FL
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Peter Hewett wrote:
> Hi Greg Maxey
>
> Absolutely!  The first thing is to make sure you have the VBA help
> files installed.  From within the VBA IDE you can then select the
> word "Close" from ActiveDocument.Close and press F1. On the system
> I've currently got booted (Word 2003) I get the following info from
> the helpfile:
>
> Closes the specified document or documents.
>
> expression.Close(SaveChanges, OriginalFormat, RouteDocument)
> expression    Required. An expression that returns one of the above
> objects.
>
> SaveChanges   Optional Variant. Specifies the save action for the
> document. Can be one of the following WdSaveOptions constants:
> wdDoNotSaveChanges, wdPromptToSaveChanges, or wdSaveChanges.
>
> OriginalFormat   Optional Variant. Specifies the save format for the
> document. Can be one of the following WdOriginalFormat constants:
> wdOriginalDocumentFormat, wdPromptUser, or wdWordDocument.
>
> RouteDocument   Optional Variant. True to route the document to the
> next recipient. If the document doesn't have a routing slip attached,
> this argument is ignored.
>
>
>
> Also, you can use the ObjectBrowser (F2).  You can then browse to
> Document, Close.  In the pane at the bottom of the window it will
> display:
>
> Sub Close([SaveChanges], [OriginalFormat], [RouteDocument])
>    Member of Word.Document
>
>
>
> The online help is the most helpful as it informs you that the
> parameter SaveChanges is an Enum of type WdSaveOptions.
> WdSaveOptions has the following constants defined for it
> wdDoNotSaveChanges, wdPromptToSaveChanges and wdSaveChanges.
>
> You should use the names (wdDoNotSaveChanges, wdPromptToSaveChanges
> or wdSaveChanges) rather than try to find and use their numeric
> value.  The whole point of an Enum is that it generates a list of
> named constants that makes the code more comprehensible.
>
> Me thinks you would find it extremely useful to purchase a book on
> VBA or VB!
>
> HTH + Cheers - Peter
>
>
> "Greg Maxey" <gmaxey@whamspammvps.org>, said:
>
>> Is there a way of finding a list of the various arguments a method
>> can have.
>> I stumbled around for over an hour the other day trying to find the
>> correct "=wdDoNotSaveChanges" to replace "wdPromtToSaveChanges"
>> found in the
>> following VBA Help example for the Close method.
>>
>> ActiveDocument.Close _
>>    SaveChanges:=wdPromptToSaveChanges, _
>>    OriginalFormat:=wdPromptUser
>>
>> Since there doesn't appear to be a auto suggestion feature for these
>> "wd...." type elements and the help file only listed this one
>> example, how
>> do you learn what works other than repeated guessing at what might
>> work?
>>
>> Thanks.

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