Macro not starting from other documents

[Martin77]

Hallo,

This Code

Private Sub document_contentcontrolonenter(ByVal ContentControl As ContentControl)
MsgBox "Hallo, I am " & ContentControl.Tag
End Sub

works within the template where it is stored.
When I click within the document the check box with the Tag "Martin"
the message comes with "Hallo, I am Martin"

Please see attached file.

The template is saved in
AppData\Roaming\Microsoft\Word\STARTUP

Any macros in any dotm-documents is this directory work with all documents.

This macro does not.

Why is that so?

How can I make it enable for all documents?

Best regards,


Martin

[gmayor]

The reason it doesn't work is that the macro is in the ThisDocument module, and 'ThisDocument' is the template itself, so it will only work for actions that relate to the template. Thus it works for the CC in the template body, but not for other documents.

See http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/MacrosVBA/AppClassEvents.htm which explains how to write application event procedures.

[Martin77]

After reading your link and other sites, this seems too complicate for me, however it is an interesting topic.

Thank you for your help, gmayor.
Regards, Martin