Automation Fill In Fields

[Ryan Wade]

In our app, we do a word merge and then print the file without viewing it.
If there are word merge fill in fields, they sometimes popup behind our app
and the user thinks that the app is hanging because they can't see the
popups. Is there anyway to get the popups for the fill in fields to popup
in front of all open windows? Thanks

Ryan

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi Ryan,

In our app, we do a word merge and then print the file without viewing it.
If there are word merge fill in fields, they sometimes popup behind our app
and the user thinks that the app is hanging because they can't see the
popups. Is there anyway to get the popups for the fill in fields to popup
in front of all open windows?

I'd say only by setting the word application window to be visible and
activate it. If you'd rather not do that all the time there's a KB article
("HowTo", written for VB) that discusses what you can do about dismissing
Office dialog boxes that are blocking code from continuing. Rather than using
SendKeys, you could build on the idea they use to determine whether the
application is "hanging" and bring it to the front.

Cindy Meister
INTER-Solutions, Switzerland
http://homepage.swissonline.ch/cindymeister (last update Sep 30 2003)
http://www.mvps.org/word

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