Question

I am writing a template in Word 2010 which is based upon another template, both of which contain considerable amounts of VBA code. I have referenced the original template to access its modules. Are global variables in the original template also accessible this way? If so, is there a coding standard to access them, such as:

TheTemplate.VariableName

or can they just be accessed by name:

VariableName

Answer 1

Each template is a closed object. None of the variables global to it a template’s modules will be accessible or visible to any other template that is currently loaded.

What you can do is add public properties to a document object. Add them to the “ThisDocument” class module every document has, for example a string property like this:

Public Property Get Foo() As String
  Foo = "Any value"
End Property

Now you can access that property from anywhere, as it will be exposed by that Document object:

MsgBox Application.Documents("appropriate document reference").Foo
' alerts "Any value"