ActiveDocument.FullPath problem

[Andrew]

Document is opened from a web page by clicking on the URL on various PC's,
running NT4 / MSO 97 or XP / MSO 2K..

In the macro ActiveDocument.FullPath usually returns the full URL of the
document.
Sometimes it returns the string "Document in Internet Explorer" which is of
no use.

What would cause the second result? Is it a setting in the local normal.dot,
or an IE setting? I can't see what is doing it.

TIA
Andrew

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Andrew,

Document is opened from a web page by clicking on the URL on various PC's,
running NT4 / MSO 97 or XP / MSO 2K..

In the macro ActiveDocument.FullPath usually returns the full URL of the
document.
Sometimes it returns the string "Document in Internet Explorer" which is of
no use.

What would cause the second result? Is it a setting in the local normal.dot,
or an IE setting? I can't see what is doing it.

When I see something like that, it usually indicates a document embedded in
another document (or Excel sheet or PPT presentation or some other application)
has been activated via an OLE interface. Like when you double-click an Word
document in an Excel sheet and it opens in a Word window, instead of using
in-place activation within the Excel window.

IOW, a file isn't being opened from disk.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Jun 8 2004)
http://www.word.mvps.org

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