Upgrading from Word 97 to 2003 - Not stopping at breakpoints

[grannyM]

We're upgrading from Word 97 to Word 2003. In 97 I could open a template, open the vb editor, make some changes in the code, (not saving them in case they were incorrect), put in some breakpoints, then go to File/New/General/ select my template, test run the macro and it would stop at my set breakpoints. When I test a macro in 2003, it doesn't stop at the set breakpoint. It's like it's opening the saved version of the macro instead of running the one I already have open. I don't want to just hit run because I don't want the macro to insert data into my master template. Is there some setting that needs to be changed in Word 2003 that I'm missing?

Thanks for your help

 

[VBAjedi]

Not sure that's the best approach to begin with. . .

You can always just use the Stop statement. One approach that some people use is to define a global boolean variable called "DebugMode". Then, wherever they want their code to break, they insert a line like:

If DebugMode Then Stop

When you're programming, just set DebugMode to true in the Immediate window (or from a simple sub).

Hope that's helpful. . .

VBAjedi