Built in Word dialog problem

[Haydn Robinson]

I'm trying to use on of Word's built in dialogs, namely the table auto-format
dialog. Reading up on MSDN, this should work:

Word.Dialog dlg =
Application.Dialogs[Word.WdWordDialog.wdDialogTableAutoFormat];

However, doing this I get the following error:

"Microsoft Word: This method or property is not available because some or
all of the current selection is not in a table."

What am I doing wrong?

 

[Haydn Robinson]

Oh yes, forgot to mention, using WinXP SP2 and Word 2003 SP1.

 

[Jay Freedman]

Oh yes, forgot to mention, using WinXP SP2 and Word 2003 SP1.

I'm trying to use on of Word's built in dialogs, namely the table
auto-format dialog. Reading up on MSDN, this should work:

Word.Dialog dlg =
Application.Dialogs[Word.WdWordDialog.wdDialogTableAutoFormat];

However, doing this I get the following error:

"Microsoft Word: This method or property is not available because
some or all of the current selection is not in a table."

What am I doing wrong?

When you execute that line of code, is the selection (insertion point)
inside a table in the active document? That condition must be true in order
to display that dialog from code. (In the UI you can use the Table > Table
AutoFormat command to display the dialog when not in a table, but clicking
OK immediately runs the Insert Table dialog. This is a special case in the
UI and isn't available to code.)

You can test this assumption by calling
Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) -- however you have to mangle that to
get the right syntax -- it returns True if the Selection is entirely within
a table.

 

[Haydn Robinson]

No the selection isn't in a table. What I have is a dialog my end that
allows someone to setup a table, with the added option of picking a
pre-defined Word table style. What I wanted was a button on my dialog that
would bring up the Word auto format dialog, so the user can see what style
they're getting. Looks like I'll have to fall back to a dropdown with just
the names of the styles in.

Thanks for that.

Haydn

Oh yes, forgot to mention, using WinXP SP2 and Word 2003 SP1.

I'm trying to use on of Word's built in dialogs, namely the table
auto-format dialog. Reading up on MSDN, this should work:

Word.Dialog dlg =
Application.Dialogs[Word.WdWordDialog.wdDialogTableAutoFormat];

However, doing this I get the following error:

"Microsoft Word: This method or property is not available because
some or all of the current selection is not in a table."

What am I doing wrong?

When you execute that line of code, is the selection (insertion point)
inside a table in the active document? That condition must be true in order
to display that dialog from code. (In the UI you can use the Table > Table
AutoFormat command to display the dialog when not in a table, but clicking
OK immediately runs the Insert Table dialog. This is a special case in the
UI and isn't available to code.)

You can test this assumption by calling
Selection.Information(wdWithInTable) -- however you have to mangle that to
get the right syntax -- it returns True if the Selection is entirely within
a table.