Bring to Front?

[Robin Tucker]

How can I bring a word document to the front of the display? At present, my
documents are all in the background (invisible). When I've finished with
automation, I want to bring one to the front (on top). Any ideas?

Thanks.

 

[Martin Seelhofer]

Hi Robin

How can I bring a word document to the front of the display? At present,
my documents are all in the background (invisible). When I've finished
with automation, I want to bring one to the front (on top). Any ideas?

When using automation, the Office applications are started invisibly
themselves. Therefore, you'll have to let the application appear:

Application.Visible = true
or through Automation (assuming your object variable is called wdObj):
wdObj.Visible = true

Then activate/select your document (assuming you have a reference to
the doc called docObj):

docObj.Activate
or
docObj.Select


Cheers,
Martin

 

[Jonathan West]

How can I bring a word document to the front of the display? At present,
my documents are all in the background (invisible). When I've finished
with automation, I want to bring one to the front (on top). Any ideas?

Thanks.

The following article describes how you can do this, and also describes some
problems & issues with the technique.

Word 2000 documents opened or created with the Visible:=False parameter
can't be made visible again, and/or don't trigger a Close Event
http://word.mvps.org/FAQs/AppErrors/DocVisibleBugContent.htm

 

[Helmut Weber]

Hi Robin,
just one more idea:
Karl E. Peterson's One-Stop Source Shop
http://www.mvps.org/vb/code/ForceFore.zip
---
Greetings from Bavaria, Germany
Helmut Weber, MVP
"red.sys" & chr(64) & "t-online.de"
Word XP, Win 98
http://word.mvps.org/