Access an object in Word from VB

[mborchers]

Hi all,

I have created a Word XP document, and in to that document I have inserted 16 barcode objects. They have all the usual properties as seen in Visual Basic.

How do I access the Barcode objects in the Word document via Visual Basic?

I am using VB to:-

Ask the user how many barcode labels are to be printed
Retrieve the next xx barcode numbers from the Access DB
Pump the barcode number in to a bookmark for easy reading
Print the associated barcode beneath the number

All the above works except for the last line.

How do I update the BarCode number property of the Barcode objects? The barcode objects are placed correctly and are called (for want of a more descriptive name) - "Barcode1 ~ Barcode16".

Thanks

Mark

(Now don't say I could do all the above using VBA. I like VB!)

[phinds]

question is totally unclear

perhaps you are trying to form a construct such as:

myName$ = "Barcode" & Cstr(thisNumber)

[mborchers]

Ahhh, perhaps my question was unclear. (I have figured it out...)

Start Word.

New blank document.

Insert... Object...

I added a control called "Barcode".

Back in VB I added the following code:-

objWord.Documents.Open ("my.doc")
Set objDoc = objWord.ActiveDocument
objWord.Visible = False

Now one of the things I needed to do was feed in a new barcode number in to the "Barcode.text" property of the barcode control in the Word document.

I was trying all sorts of bizarre commands to add that text, but finally figured out that it was as simple as:-

objDoc.barcode.Text = "1234567890"

Thanks for your reply!

I'm slowly figuring this out!

Mark