Field.Result.Text not showing up

[Abe]

I am using VB code to insert a field of type "wdTypeAddin" to a footnote;
then I set the text being displayed by the field using the
footnotes(i).range.fields(i).result.text property. However this simply
appends the text to the end of the field (immediately after the closing curly
brace) and the text is not part of the field - it is just text sitting beside
the field.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I set the display text for this field?

Thank you!
Abe Fisher

 

[Cindy M.]

Hi Abe,

I am using VB code to insert a field of type "wdTypeAddin" to a footnote;
then I set the text being displayed by the field using the
footnotes(i).range.fields(i).result.text property. However this simply
appends the text to the end of the field (immediately after the closing curly
brace) and the text is not part of the field - it is just text sitting beside
the field.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I set the display text for this field?

This field was never designed to display a result, only to provide a place for
an Add-in to store some data (but I've never seen a spec on how to actually use
it for that, probably because it targeted C++ COM add-ins).

For displaying static text in a field use the QUOTE field.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 17 2005)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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[Peter Jamieson]

Try creating the field as a QUOTE type field, setting the result, then
changing the field type to ADDIN. That used to work anyway!

Peter Jamieson

http://tips.pjmsn.me.uk