I started a few days ago to write a Macro. It basically only consists of an UI in which you can choose some options and based on those it gives you a couple of pages of a word document. It will be started from the .exe in the bin/release folder of the project.
I want to add a footer and a header for each page, but I have not been able to do so.
Whenever I want to use a functionality similar to: "wdHeaderFooterPrimary" as in:
objWord = CreateObject("Word.Application")
objDoc = objWord.Documents.Add
objWord.Visible = True
objWord.Selection.TypeText("")
With objWord.Selection
.Paragraphs.Alignment = 2
.Font.size = 9
.Font.Name = "Arial"
End With
With objWord.Sections(1)
.Headers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Text = "Header text"
.Footers(wdHeaderFooterPrimary).Range.Text = "Footer text"
End With
It gives me an error, underlining the "wdHeader....". Up to now I have always found a workaround whenever I needed a functionality beginning with "wd...". But now I seem to have hit a wall. (I got some code from: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/office/aa221968(v=office.11).aspx )
Can someone explain to me how to use it properly? Do I have to change settings? I am using Visual Basic 2010 Express to write the VBA code.
Edit: The exact error is:
"wdheaderFooterPrimary" was not declared.
(translation following for 2nd part:) Perhaps the object could not be accessed based on its security level (?)
I ended up creating a wordtemplate.dot file where I included the header/footer as I wanted and loading it into the application when creating a new file.