Word addin tied to document Property

[Michael Schnell]

All,

I'm trying to write a VB6 addin for Word XP that will "create" a drop down
box indicating a certain classification to the "document". This being,
among others, Confidential, Internal Use Only, etc. This is supposed to be
tied to the individual document and will be printed out in the footer of
each document.

I've gotten the commandbar and combo box to appear and gotten this to work
with one document. However, as soon as a second document is created/opened
(while the first is still open), the whole thing just seems to stop working.
The box is still there, but any changes I make to the box in the second
document seem to apply to the first document and nothing happens on the
first.

This is probably related somehow, but I'm also getting an error when trying
to set the .OnAction property of the combobox. I have the .OnAction item
set to what it's supposed to be (MyDll name.Connect class), but I keep
getting the error "The macro cannot be found or has been disabled because of
your Macro security settings" whenever I change the combo box contents and
the .OnAction property was set. If I comment out that line, the error
doesn't show. However, I know that it's not the security settings because
I've got the macro security set to Low (this is inside a VPC on a
disconnected laptop, so the security isn't a problem).

TIA,

Michael Schnell
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[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Michael,

I would like to suggest you add a tag property of the CommandBarButton to
have a try.

Click Event Is Not Raised for a Custom Word CommandBarButton Object
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826931/en-us

Sincerely,

Wei Lu

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[Tantras35]

I do have a tag property assigned to my control, but in addition, it's
not a CommandBarButton, but a CommandBarComboBox.

Also, this has been created using VB6 as a COM AddIn, not managed
code.

Michael Schnell

 

[Tantras35]

I want to note that I found this KB article:

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/280427

WD2002: OnUpdate Event Fails Updating CommandBars in Different
Document


When I make the changes indicated here, my combobox seems to work (I
haven't completely tested everything yet). However, I'm not sure
whether I can indicate that all copies of Word 2002 must be set to MDI
(and not SDI). Has there been any updates or fixes made that would
avoid having to indicate that Word MUST be run in MDI mode and not
SDI.

Thank you

Michael Schnell

 

[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Michael,

Currently, I did not get the update for this issue. Have you tried on Word
2003?

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
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[Tantras35]

No, I have not yet tried this on anything newer than Word XP, because
my client is still using Word XP (office XP), although they are in the
planning process of rolling out an upgrade to Word 2007 (Office
2007).

I will be testing this against word 2007 shortly, but it needs to run
against Word XP for at least several months until the rollout of 2007
is complete.

Michael Schnell

 

[Wei Lu [MSFT]]

Hello Michael,

Could you generate a simple sample code so that I can help to tested on my
side?

Sincerely,

Wei Lu
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[Brian McCullough]

Wei,

I am having a similar problem and my code is posted in the posting titled:
"Word AddIn using ComboBox in Standard Toolbar".

-Brian