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SharedWorkspaceTask.Creator property (Office)

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Gets a 32-bit integer that indicates the application in which the SharedWorkspaceTask object was created. Read-only.

Note

Beginning with Microsoft Office 2010, this object or member has been deprecated and should not be used.

Syntax

expression.Creator

expression A variable that represents a SharedWorkspaceTask object.

Return value

Long

Remarks

As an example, if the object was created in Microsoft Word, this property returns 1297307460, which represents the string "MSWD"; in Microsoft Excel, this property returns 1480803660. This value can also be represented by the constant wdCreatorCode in Word or xlCreatorCode in Excel.

The Creator property was primarily designed to be used on the Macintosh, where each application has a four-character creator code. For example, Microsoft Word has the creator code MSWD. For additional information about this property, consult the language reference Help included with the Microsoft Office Macintosh Edition.

The Creator property always returns the numeric identifier for the active application, just as the Application property always returns the name of the active application in string form. Use the CreatedBy property of the SharedWorkspaceTask object to return the name of the individual who created the object. Use document properties to return information about the authors of Office documents.

Example

This example displays a message about the creator of the "myObject" variable.

Set myObject = ActiveDocument 
If myObject.Creator = wdCreatorCode Then 
    MsgBox "This is a Microsoft Word object" 
Else 
    MsgBox "This is not a Microsoft Word object" 
End If

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