Dear Forum,

my goal is to activate (open / switch on / enable) the "Selection and Visibility Pane" from within VBA code (Word macro).

What is the "Selection and Visibility Pane"? This is part of Microsoft Word GUI. This tool is meant for working with objects in your document, particularly shapes and images. To use the tool, display the Page Layout tab of the ribbon and click the Selection Pane tool in the Arrange group. The pane appears at the right side of the document. (The Selection Pane tool is a toggle; clicking it a second time hides the pane.)

What I already tried to do prior to asking a question here, was searching the following resources:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...cation.dialogs
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/off...word.taskpanes

Without a hit till now. I can't find any hint, how this pane is named or where to search for it.

My MS Word: 2010 Professional Plus
My operating system: Windows 7 Enterprise

Kind regards, mslonik