Hi. I'm pretty new to Word Automation from VB. I inherited a mass of code and
got it to work pretty well in our setting, but am now stuck he If I open
two sessions of word, and in each open one document, then close one session
(no changes made to the doc), by doing a Word.Quit I always get prompted
about Normal.dot being "in use by another aplication or user". I hit OK (the
only choice) and then get a save as dialog box for normal.dot. I cancel and
then I'm back in Woord. When I then exit, I get asked if I want to save
changes to Normal.dot, say no, and then I'm out. This situation makes my
program unusable, because the users will not accept all this interaction.

If I do all this outside of automation, that is launch 2 copies word form
the desktp, open a doc in each, then close on, I get none of this, I just
exit smoothly.

Any ideas?
--
Hal

I doubt you are opening two instances of Word from the desktop. Why do you
want to do this in your application?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Hal Tz" wrote in message
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Hi. I'm pretty new to Word Automation from VB. I inherited a mass of code
and
got it to work pretty well in our setting, but am now stuck he If I
open
two sessions of word, and in each open one document, then close one
session
(no changes made to the doc), by doing a Word.Quit I always get prompted
about Normal.dot being "in use by another aplication or user". I hit OK
(the
only choice) and then get a save as dialog box for normal.dot. I cancel
and
then I'm back in Woord. When I then exit, I get asked if I want to save
changes to Normal.dot, say no, and then I'm out. This situation makes my
program unusable, because the users will not accept all this interaction.

If I do all this outside of automation, that is launch 2 copies word form
the desktp, open a doc in each, then close on, I get none of this, I just
exit smoothly.

Any ideas?
--
Hal

Thanks, excellent questions.
1. You're absolutely right, from the desktop, 2 copies of Word do NOT get
started, as the task list tells me.
2. I'm starting separate copies in my app because that's what the code I
inherited does.

There is a lot of code and I didn't have time nor any good reason (as I do
now) to revisit that peculiarity. The code creates word docs, allows viewing
them, and also allows converting them to tiff using, naturally, Word. There
can be multiple instances of these 3 operations going on simultaneously. For
each of the three operations, the app (which consist of 2 exes and 1 dll)
launches a copy of Word doing New Word.Application, and it does it in 3
different places in the codes, so the requisite redesign and re-write to use
just one Word instance is not a small effort, which I am about to embark on.

Another question: it turns out that the reason my Word opens and updates
Normal.dot each time Word is launched is that there is one 3rd party startup
macro that does it, I have no idea why, nor what it does, nor will it be easy
to find out in this large (about 1000 seats) installation. But my follow-up
question is this: is there any way to launch Word in such a way that the
startup macros do NOT run? I know I can shell out to Winword.exe /m to get
this effect, but I need to continue to use the Office Automaton methods, so I
need to be able to have a Word.Application oject in my code.

Thanks.
--
Hal


"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

I doubt you are opening two instances of Word from the desktop. Why do you
want to do this in your application?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
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"Hal Tz" wrote in message
...
Hi. I'm pretty new to Word Automation from VB. I inherited a mass of code
and
got it to work pretty well in our setting, but am now stuck he If I
open
two sessions of word, and in each open one document, then close one
session
(no changes made to the doc), by doing a Word.Quit I always get prompted
about Normal.dot being "in use by another aplication or user". I hit OK
(the
only choice) and then get a save as dialog box for normal.dot. I cancel
and
then I'm back in Woord. When I then exit, I get asked if I want to save
changes to Normal.dot, say no, and then I'm out. This situation makes my
program unusable, because the users will not accept all this interaction.

If I do all this outside of automation, that is launch 2 copies word form
the desktp, open a doc in each, then close on, I get none of this, I just
exit smoothly.

Any ideas?
--
Hal

You are likely to get more knowledgeable responses in the
public.word.vba.customization newsgroup.

winword.exe /a starts a default setup copy of Word if that helps.
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Hal Tz" wrote in message
...
Thanks, excellent questions.
1. You're absolutely right, from the desktop, 2 copies of Word do NOT get
started, as the task list tells me.
2. I'm starting separate copies in my app because that's what the code I
inherited does.

There is a lot of code and I didn't have time nor any good reason (as I
do
now) to revisit that peculiarity. The code creates word docs, allows
viewing
them, and also allows converting them to tiff using, naturally, Word.
There
can be multiple instances of these 3 operations going on simultaneously.
For
each of the three operations, the app (which consist of 2 exes and 1 dll)
launches a copy of Word doing New Word.Application, and it does it in 3
different places in the codes, so the requisite redesign and re-write to
use
just one Word instance is not a small effort, which I am about to embark
on.

Another question: it turns out that the reason my Word opens and updates
Normal.dot each time Word is launched is that there is one 3rd party
startup
macro that does it, I have no idea why, nor what it does, nor will it be
easy
to find out in this large (about 1000 seats) installation. But my
follow-up
question is this: is there any way to launch Word in such a way that the
startup macros do NOT run? I know I can shell out to Winword.exe /m to get
this effect, but I need to continue to use the Office Automaton methods,
so I
need to be able to have a Word.Application oject in my code.

Thanks.
--
Hal


"Charles Kenyon" wrote:

I doubt you are opening two instances of Word from the desktop. Why do
you
want to do this in your application?
--
Charles Kenyon

Word New User FAQ & Web Directory: http://addbalance.com/word

Intermediate User's Guide to Microsoft Word (supplemented version of
Microsoft's Legal Users' Guide) http://addbalance.com/usersguide

See also the MVP FAQ: http://www.mvps.org/word which is awesome!
--------- --------- --------- --------- --------- ---------
This message is posted to a newsgroup. Please post replies
and questions to the newsgroup so that others can learn
from my ignorance and your wisdom.

"Hal Tz" wrote in message
...
Hi. I'm pretty new to Word Automation from VB. I inherited a mass of
code
and
got it to work pretty well in our setting, but am now stuck he If I
open
two sessions of word, and in each open one document, then close one
session
(no changes made to the doc), by doing a Word.Quit I always get
prompted
about Normal.dot being "in use by another aplication or user". I hit OK
(the
only choice) and then get a save as dialog box for normal.dot. I cancel
and
then I'm back in Woord. When I then exit, I get asked if I want to save
changes to Normal.dot, say no, and then I'm out. This situation makes
my
program unusable, because the users will not accept all this
interaction.

If I do all this outside of automation, that is launch 2 copies word
form
the desktp, open a doc in each, then close on, I get none of this, I
just
exit smoothly.

Any ideas?
--
Hal