Frequently Asked Visual Basic Questions
General questions
How do I convert my WordBasic macros to Visual Basic?
How do I find out the Visual Basic equivalent for a WordBasic command or function?
What are objects, properties and methods?
How do I find out which property or method I need?
How do I return a single object from a collection?
Questions about Word features
How do I refer to the active element (for example, paragraph, table, field)?
How do I refer to words, sentences, paragraphs, or sections in a document?
I keep getting the "object doesn't support this property or method" error; how can I avoid it?
How do I create, open, save and close documents?
How do I select text in a document?
How do I insert text into a document?
I keep getting the "requested member of the collection does not exist" error; how can I avoid it?
How do I loop on a collection?
How do I prompt for information from the user?
How do I return text from a document?
How do I know if the Application property is needed before a top level property or method?
How do I display a built-in Microsoft Word dialog box?
I keep getting an error when I try to access a table row or column?