AutoNew deos not run with winword.exe

[Titus Kruse]

Hi!

I got a template with an AutoNew() Macro. When I open Word and select "New
Document" with this template, the AutoNew()-macro is called. But when I run
Word from DOS the macro isn't called. Why that? I'm using Word 2000. In Word
2003 I got the same problem.

Titus Kruse

 

[Doug Robbins - Word MVP]

An autonew macro only runs when a new document is created from the template
in which it is located. If you want a macro to run when word is started, it
should be named autoexec()

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Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Titus Kruse]

Hi Doug!

I want to create a document from my template! My wish is to run Word from
the command shell with a previously created template. A macro in this
template should read data from a given .ini-file and merge this data with
fields in the new document. Because /t and /m couldn't be used together, I've
placed an AutoNew-Macro in my template.

 

[gils usenet acct]

Thanks !
Useful info.
Gil

An autonew macro only runs when a new document is created from the
template in which it is located. If you want a macro to run when word is
started, it should be named autoexec()

--
Hope this helps.

Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my
services on a paid consulting basis.

Doug Robbins - Word MVP

 

[Titus Kruse]

Useful info? Yes. But the reply doesn't address the issue of my question. I
don't want to run a macro every time Word starts. And anywhere, even
AutoExec() doesn't run when the template has been called via shell command
winword.exe and the /t option.

Greetings, Titus

 

[Cindy M -WordMVP-]

Hi =?Utf-8?B?VGl0dXMgS3J1c2U=?=,

I want to create a document from my template! My wish is to run Word from
the command shell with a previously created template. A macro in this
template should read data from a given .ini-file and merge this data with
fields in the new document. Because /t and /m couldn't be used together, I've
placed an AutoNew-Macro in my template.

Word isn't designed to function like this; you can use the web interface to make
a "Suggestion" to Microsoft that you'd like to be able to invoke a macro in a
template when creating a new document from the command line.

/t will not execute AutoNew
/m must be in the Normal.dot template

If you were automating Word's object model, then the AutoNew would execute.

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

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