Writing Word Macros, Second Edition

The View Object

A View object represents many of the viewing attributes of a contents of a window or pane. The View property of the Window or Pane object returns the View object.

The properties and methods of the View object are shown in the following list (I discuss just a few of these members):

Application	SeekView	ShowObjectAnchors
BrowseToWindow	ShowAll	ShowOptionalBreaks
CollapseOutline	ShowAllHeadings	ShowParagraphs
Creator	ShowAnimation	ShowPicturePlaceHolders
Draft	ShowBookmarks	ShowSpaces
EnlargeFontsLessThan	ShowDrawings	ShowTabs
ExpandOutline	ShowFieldCodes	ShowTextBoundaries
FieldShading	ShowFirstLineOnly	SplitSpecial
FullScreen	ShowFormat	TableGridlines
Magnifier	ShowHeading	Type
MailMergeDataView	ShowHiddenText	WrapToWindow
NextHeaderFooter	ShowHighlight	Zoom
Parent	ShowHyphens
PreviousHeaderFooter	ShowMainTextLayer

The Type Property

The Type property is used to set (or return) the view type. It can be set to any of the constants in the following enum:

	Enum WdViewType
	   wdNormalView = 1
	   wdOutlineView = 2
	   wdPageView = 3
	   wdPrintPreview = 4
	   wdMasterView = 5
	   wdOnlineView = 6
	End Enum

For instance, the following code sets the view for the active window to page layout:

	ActiveWindow.View.Type = wdPageView

The Show Properties

The View object has several properties that determine what items are visible in the window. Here is a partial list (note that all of the properties are read/write Boolean, unless stated otherwise):

The ShowAll property ...