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Hi Rgonzo, <br />
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great, this did the trick, thank you very much for your great help. I really appreciate it. <br />
<br />
Regards, Andreas
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Hi Rgonzo,

great, this did the trick, thank you very much for your great help. I really appreciate it.

Regards, Andreas

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Dear Experts: <br />
<br />
this is a snippet from a macro I regularly run: <br />
<br />
If the Building Block Entry cannot be found (ie. does not exist), I get an error message that I am trapping with a user-defined message box.<br />
<br />
Is it possible to check right right at the beginning of the macro whether this building block exists in the first place and if not, the macro exits right away telling so with a msgbox.<br />
<br />
Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. <br />
<br />
Regards, Andreas<br />
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NormalTemplate.BuildingBlo<wbr />ckEntries(<wbr />&quot;MS_BackCo<wbr />ver&quot;).Inse<wbr />rt Where:= _<br />
&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Selection.Range, RichText:=True
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Dear Experts: 

this is a snippet from a macro I regularly run: 

If the Building Block Entry cannot be found (ie. does not exist), I get an error message that I am trapping with a user-defined message box.

Is it possible to check right right at the beginning of the macro whether this building block exists in the first place and if not, the macro exits right away telling so with a msgbox.

Help is much appreciated. Thank you very much in advance. 

Regards, Andreas

NormalTemplate.BuildingBlockEntries("MS_BackCover").Insert Where:= _
        Selection.Range, RichText:=True

Check the existence of a building block by means of VBA

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