Word as Email Editor

[David]

General Question:
What characteristics of Word or the particular document are they that
display as an email editor, rather than a normal document? How can one tell
from VBA which mode a document represents?

Specific:
Word always seems to start up with the window mode in which it was last used
ie Full Screen or smaller window. I would like to start all normal documents
up full-screen but the email editor as a smaller window eg by code in the
document open event. How would I do this, please? Are there any settings that
would help, without involving VBA?

David

 

[James]

You could check to see whether the E-mail toolbar is visible...

 

[champollion.yves]

General Question:
What characteristics of Word or the particular document are they that
display as an email editor, rather than a normal document? How can one tell
from VBA which mode a document represents?

you know that a document is actually an email being edited in Outlook
(with Outlook setup to use Ms-Word as editor) by looking up the
document's kink property:

If ActiveDocument.Kind = wdDocumentEmail Then...

Specific:
Word always seems to start up with the window mode in which it was last used
ie Full Screen or smaller window. I would like to start all normal documents
up full-screen but the email editor as a smaller window eg by code in the
document open event. How would I do this, please? Are there any settings that
would help, without involving VBA?

I don't think so, since you're testing a condition (is this an email?
If so then...else ...). VBA coding will be needed, and would look like
that:

If ActiveDocument.Kind = wdDocumentEmail Then
ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateNormal
Else
ActiveWindow.WindowState = wdWindowStateMaximize
End If

HTH,
Yves Champollion
www.champollion.net