TAG or Name for OLEObjects?

[Office Engineer]

Hi
I have a document where I am programmaticly adding an
InlineShapes.OLEObject. Sometimes it is the first object sometimes not. I
need a way to identify the new object at run time. As I understand it, each
OLEObj has a certaim Item property but that can later change if an earlier
OLEObj is deleted.
Running MSWord 2003 on XP

 

[Cindy M.]

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I have a document where I am programmaticly adding an
InlineShapes.OLEObject. Sometimes it is the first object sometimes not. I
need a way to identify the new object at run time. As I understand it, each
OLEObj has a certaim Item property but that can later change if an earlier
OLEObj is deleted.
Running MSWord 2003 on XP

If the OLE objects are InlineShapes then you can't assign them a Name or a
Tag. What you can do is place a bookmark around them. The pseudo code, very
roughly (meaning I'm writing this off the top of my head):

Dim ils as Word.InlineShape
Dim rng as Word.Range
Dim bkm as Word.Bookmark

Set ils = InlineShapes.AddOLEObject('parameters here)
Set rng = ils.Range
Set bkm = ActiveDocument.Bookmarks.Add(rng, "OLEShapeTag")

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

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