Word Automation working but doing something VERY STRANGE
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Hi all, I finally was able to get my Word Automation project to work, somewhat. I was never able to find a way with Office 97 but Office 2000 and XP, I was able to find a way. But I am having one problem. When I launch Word from my application, everything seems to work fine. Except when I decide to open an existing word document. It opens the document but it does it in an entirely new Word window, not in the existing window like it usually does. Any ideas what might be causing this? Any ideas how to get around this?????? I am stumped...
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Hi all, I finally was able to get my Word Automation project to work, somewhat. I was never able to find a way with Office 97 but Office 2000 and XP, I was able to find a way. But I am having one problem. When I launch Word from my application, everything seems to work fine. Except when I decide to open an existing word document. It opens the document but it does it in an entirely new Word window, not in the existing window like it usually does. Any ideas what might be causing this? Any ideas how to get around this?????? I am stumped...
I thought this is how Word 2000 and beyond works. When I moved from Office 97 to 2000 one thing I noticed with Word and Excel etc was that each document was opened in a new Window. This may be an options setting. It did not bother me so I did not investigate. But you may want to look into it.
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I thought this is how Word 2000 and beyond works. When I moved from Office 97 to 2000 one thing I noticed with Word and Excel etc was that each document was opened in a new Window. This may be an options setting. It did not bother me so I did not investigate. But you may want to look into it.
Thanks. I actually did look into it and after A LOT of digging, I finally found an answer on Microsoft's website. According to MS, Office 97 and earlier was created using the MDI design. But Office 2000 and Office 2002 was created using the SDI design. You are correct, there is a setting that can be turned on or off to do what is wanted. It is under Tools, then Options, and on the View tab, uncheck the Windows in Taskbar. This will bring up multiple documents in one instance.