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Office Word Programming >> Application.FileSearch in Word2007 VBA

by Nancy22 » Sat, 23 Aug 2008 06:50:47 GMT

This bit of code is in a macro that used to run fine under Word2003:

With Application.FileSearch
.NewSearch
.LookIn = "c:\My Documents\myfile"
.SearchSubFolders = False
.FileName = lookFor

Now under Word2007, when I try to run the same macro, it stops at that line
and I get the error message "Run-time error 5111: This command is not
available on this platform."

What does this mean and how can I fix my old macro so that it works?


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