Peter T. Daniels wrote:
Did you overlook the fact that OP asked "_Shouldn't_ Word [do such and
such]"? I provided a very reasonable reason why Word "shouldn't" by
default, out-of-the-box, provide the idiosyncratic behavior that OP
needs.
On Sep 3, 5:48 pm, Gordon Bentley-Mix on news.microsoft.com gordon
(dot)bentleymix(at)gmail(dot)com wrote:
But clearly this *isn't* the behaviour that the OP wants, or he/she
wouldn't have a macro designed to do otherwise.
Peter, your post is in no way helpful. When will you learn that the
way you prefer to work isn't necessarily the way others do? It's
blatantly obvious that the OP is not "most people" - and more
importantly, not you. The implicit message in your post is that the
OP is doing something "wrong" and shouldn't be trying to solve this
problem because doing it the "right" way (read: your way) would
avoid the problem entirely. This is incorrect. The OP is doing
nothing "wrong"; he/she simply wants to do work in a way that meets
his/her needs and is looking for help with overcoming an impediment
to this process.
Pull your head in and stop providing "non-answers" to questions
outside of your very limited area of expertise.
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Cheers!
Gordon Bentley-Mix
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"Peter T. Daniels" wrote:
That seems like the behavior most people would want -- usually when
you Save As, it's because you want two copies of the file with
different names, so it protects you from accidentally deleting the
original.
On Sep 3, 2:56 pm, Bouncinalong
wrote:
I have a macro that saves a Word form as another filename (SaveAs)
in another folder on a network drive and I use the
filesystemobject to delete the old file from the original folder
after the "save as" is complete. It works fine on some PC's but
others won't let the file be deleted. It appears that Word still
has a handle to the original file after the save as is complete
which won't let me delete the old file (I also can't delete them
manually using Windows Explorer until I close the instance of
Word). Shouldn't Word let go of the original file after a "save
as" is completed? Is this a registry issue?
No Peter, you offered your opinion and commentary on a topic and question
that is clearly over your head (read "outside your range of expertise.")
The user has a file named something. He wants to save it as a new file
named something esle. Then he wants to delete the original file. Nothing
odd or particularily idiosyncratic about that.
This can certainly be done in a single Word instance using out of the box
interface provided Word cooperates and releases its pointers to temporary
files. The OP is smart enough to know that it isn't default SaveAs
behaviour. That is very likely the reason he has constructed a macro.
If you really wanted to be helpful , instead of say 'bloat your post
numbers', then as soon as you saw the term "macro" in the OP you should have
considered that the matter is most likely over your head and left it alone.
Your assertion "...usually when you Save As, it's because you want two
copies of the file with
different names, so it protects you from accidentally deleting the original"
is one of the most
cockamamie things you've said yet. Utterly ridiculous.
Greg Maxey
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