Understanding Application-Level Objects

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Application-level objects are the Application object itself and its properties, methods, options (displayed in the Options dialog box), as well as the built-in dialog boxes in Word — in other words, these are objects that can affect more than one document at a time or are accessed and manipulated independent of the currently active Document object.

In This Section

• Working with the Application Object
  Access all the other objects exposed by the application as well as properties and methods unique to the Application object itself.
• Working with the Settings in the Options Dialog Box
  Learn how to use the Options, View, and Dialog options.
• Working with Word Dialog Boxes
  Create your own custom dialog boxes by using the functionality of one of the Word built-in dialog boxes.
• Modifying Built-in Commands
  Customize the behavior of Word by running your own VBA procedure in place of a built-in procedure.

Related Sections

• Working with Microsoft Word Objects
  Use VBA to work with the Microsoft® Word Document object, Application object, and Documents collection.
• The Document Object
  Create or open documents and add them to the Documents collection.
• Working with Document Content
  Work with objects contained in the Document object.