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Working with Microsoft Publisher Objects

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When you write Microsoft® Visual Basic® for Applications (VBA) code that calls into Microsoft® Publisher, you treat Publisher as a collection of Visual Basic objects, where each object has methods and properties that either return Publisher's state or cause Publisher to do something. The object model is the entire interface you see — all of the Publisher functionality is somewhere in the tree of exposed objects. This nicely encapsulates the functionality of Publisher in an easy-to-browse, standard way, so anyone who has programmed (for example) Microsoft® Word has a good chance of understanding Publisher. It provides an object-oriented face to Publisher. A number of concepts and technologies make it possible for Publisher to respond to Visual Basic, including: IDispatch, reference counting, object creation, type library interpreting, error handling, lifetime management, and collection enumeration.

In This Section

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