Designating Word Macro? Options

[jnuttallphd]

I am following the procedure in Larry Allen's book on Scripting for connecting voice command to Microsoft Word macros, e.g. macro called DefaultFont.

Sub Main
Word.Application.Run "DefaultFont"
EndSub

I'm also connecting to the --
Microsoft Word 9.0 Object Library (for Word-2000)

My problem is that I get a "Syntax error" message. So command will not complete or be saved. Any help and advice would be appreciated.

Jim

[Larry Allen]

Possibilities:

1) I copied the macro from your message. There was no space between "End" and "Sub", causing a syntax error. In this case, it also showed "unexpected end of file" in the bottom part of the script window.
2) If you see "not an object reference" then the association/reference to the Word object library is not correct. Right-click while on the "Word.Application.Run..." line, select References, and verify the MS Word Object Library 9.0 is checked.
3) If you copied the macro from a Word document, then check the double-quote characters. The slanted ones that look pretty and that Word uses aren't correct -- type over the double-quote characters in the script box and you'll get the correct straight double-quotes.
4) TBD... this is part of the pain of macro development :-)

Larry Allen

[jnuttallphd]

Thanks Larry --

I didn't notice the problem between the "End" and "Sub". That corrected the situation. Now I can easily call up by Word macros. I'm learning more about writing Word macros. Quite handy.

Thanks again -- Jim