What does "This style has a circular based on list " mean ?

[Sudharsan]

Hi

When i am using Style on a word document and when i try marking up TOC on
the document i occassionally get the following error.

"This style has a circular based on list" with an error code 5325.

I am not able to get any relevant info on this. Have you got this before and
whats your suggestion to fix this.

Thanks
Sudharsan

[Klaus Linke]

Hi Sudharsan,

It probably means you have some circular reference in your style
definitions (like style A is based on style B, style B on C, and style C is
based on A).

Usually, Word won't let you create styles with such circular references.
You must have found a way around that?
(Look at the style's definition in "Format > Style > Modify...", "Based
on:")

;-) Klaus

[Sudharsan]

Hi Klaus
Thanks, but i am not using circular reference. Infact i have only one
style in the whole application !

Thanks indeed

Sudharsan

"Klaus Linke" <fotosatz...@t-online.de> wrote in message
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[Klaus Linke]

> Thanks, but i am not using circular reference. Infact i have only
> one style in the whole application !
>
> Thanks indeed
>
> Sudharsan

You mean one style in addition to the five that are always present (Normal,
Heading 1, 2, 3, and Default Paragraph Font)?

Regards,
Klaus

[Klaus Linke]

... and how are you creating the TOC if the whole document is formatted in
the same style?

Klaus

[Sudharsan]

Hi Klaus
I am using only Heading 1 as style. I had mentioned before that this
error occurs only ocassionally. I believe it happens whenever the TOC markup
fails internally. So the next time i markup on the same document it tries to
set the STYLE again. I am setting style as below.

Set objStyle = objActiveDoc.Styles.Add(Name:="Heading_1_Char",
Type:=wdStyleTypeCharacter)
objActiveDoc.Styles("Heading_1_Char").LinkStyle = "Heading 1"
objStyle.LinkStyle = "Heading 1"

I am capturing the error and in the error handler routine i try deleting the
style, which i believe is not the right thing to do. clearing the style
might help, how how will i do that??

Sudharsan

"Klaus Linke" <fotosatz...@t-online.de> wrote in message

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[Klaus Linke]

Hi Sudharsan,

I'm not familiar with any method called "LinkStyle".
Is it something you wrote yourself? What does it do?

And you probably don't need to run it twice...

objActiveDoc.Styles("Heading_1_Char").LinkStyle = "Heading 1"

is the same as
objStyle.LinkStyle = "Heading 1"
since that's the way you defined objStyle.

Regards,
Klaus

[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Klaus,

> I'm not familiar with any method called "LinkStyle".
> Is it something you wrote yourself? What does it do?
>

this was new in Word 2002, and it links the definitions of
styles together. I don't really understand WHY it's there,
or why one would use it...

I suspect it's the result of that new nastiness, where Word
2002 creates "Char" styles whenever you select text (rather
than paras) and apply a paragraph style. I did some
extensive testing with it when Word 2002 first came out,
and it was a good way to make a document unuseable :-)

Sudharsan, can you tell us WHY on earth you're using
LinkStyle? I imagine it's the cause of your problems...

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update
Jan 24 2003)
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[Sudharsan]

Hi Cindy
I am generating TOC on a word document and to get the "Link" effect in
TOC i am using this. When i
use linkstyle like

objWrd.LinkStyle = "Heading 1"

in Word2002 it is giving me a perfect TOC. But this doesnt work in
Word2000 and i am not sure how to replicate this..

I want to create a simple Link for each item on the generated TOC.

I know this lands me in a mess and i would love to see the other
approach.

Thanks a lot
Sudharsan

"Cindy Meister -WordMVP-" <CindyM...@swissonline.ch> wrote in message
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[Cindy Meister -WordMVP-]

Hi Sudharsan,

OK, I'm going to try and break this up into "bite size pieces", since
there are a number of things involved. The simplest/clearest, first:

LinkStyle is new in Word 2002, so the code will not function in Word
2000. That's a given, it's set, it's clear.

So, now we have to understand what you're trying to achieve, and that's
not at all clear to me. We definitely have a language barrier, here, but
let's see if we can sift out a common terminology/understanding.

What I don't understand, yet, is what you're trying to accomplish with
LinkStyle. What kind of "Link" effect is it you're hoping for in the
TOC? Do you mean hyperlinking back to the Heading 1 paragraphs?

Or do you somehow want to affect the font formatting of the TOC,
itself, so that the entries look the same as the Heading 1 text in the
document?

LinkStyle really has nothing whatsoever to do with a TOC, per se. I get
the feeling that you're using this to do something with Word I wouldn't
consider "usual", and I'm having trouble understanding what that is.

What .LinkStyle is meant to do is associate a character style with a
paragraph style: if you change the font definition of one, the other's
definition will change to match. That's all it should be used for (and
at that only sparingly).

> I am generating TOC on a word document and to get the "Link" effect in
> TOC i am using this. When i
> use linkstyle like
>
> objWrd.LinkStyle = "Heading 1"
>
> in Word2002 it is giving me a perfect TOC. But this doesnt work in
> Word2000 and i am not sure how to replicate this..
>
> I want to create a simple Link for each item on the generated TOC.
>

Cindy Meister