Macro breaks but works when breakpoint used

[Mark]

I'm pulling my hair out on this one. I've got a document
w/ several protected sections. In the event that the text
in one of the unprotected sections is accidently deleted,
I've written a macro to replace the text and tag it with
some required character and paragraph styles.

Here's the catch: when I execute the macro, I get a
Runtime error 4605 - "This method or property is not
available because the object refers to a protected area of
the document."

Yet, when I set a breakpoint on and step through
the "Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles" line, it all
works as expected.

Here's all i'm trying to do:

Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=17,
Extend:=wdExtend
Selection.Style = ActiveDocument.Styles
("IntelinkSummaryTitle")
Selection.MoveRight unit:=wdCharacter, Count:=7

 

[Jonathan West]

Hi Mark,

If it works when stepping through but not when running, then something is
getting out of sync in the macro, probably between the document and the
screen display of it.

Try putting a couple of DoEvents commands immediately before the offending
line of code, so that Windows is given a chance to catch up with what the
macro has done.