troubleshooting Question
How to loop with VBA on all controls placed in a Word doc ?
Bernard Thouin
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I'm working on a Word template with controls, which I chose from the Control Toolbox (NOT from the "Forms" toolbar). It all works well until I try, in a kind of checking routine, to loop through all controls in the document creted through the template.
I can refer, in the VBA code, to single controls in the document with "Me.<Control name>", but I can't, for the life of me, find the syntax to go through all controls (to check their contents) in a generic loop.
I've tried to loop on Fields and FormFields, but I don't get what I want. The only thing I can find out is that I have 42 "fields" (which are my controls, in fact) and their type (combobox, textbox, listbox, ..), but I am unable to find how to get the controls' name and content in a generic "For next" loop. As I can't believe that this is not possible, I'm asking you for help :-)
Bernard
I'm working on a Word template with controls, which I chose from the Control Toolbox (NOT from the "Forms" toolbar). It all works well until I try, in a kind of checking routine, to loop through all controls in the document creted through the template.
I can refer, in the VBA code, to single controls in the document with "Me.<Control name>", but I can't, for the life of me, find the syntax to go through all controls (to check their contents) in a generic loop.
I've tried to loop on Fields and FormFields, but I don't get what I want. The only thing I can find out is that I have 42 "fields" (which are my controls, in fact) and their type (combobox, textbox, listbox, ..), but I am unable to find how to get the controls' name and content in a generic "For next" loop. As I can't believe that this is not possible, I'm asking you for help :-)
Bernard
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