Form Macro Problem

[Thejan Mendis]

Hi,


I have created a form macro and it will automatically open. Because of that
I can not open a anther document or do any changer to a Opened document
until I close the macro form. Is there way to me access another word
document freely with out closing the form.

THEJAN

 

[mksmith]

May I suggest opening the form (i.e. your dialog box) in a modeless state?

But be careful when you handle and dispose of the form object and pointer.

Malc
www.dragondrop.com

 

[Mark Tangard]

Hi Thejan,

If by "freely" you mean manually (that is, by using the menus
yourself), you can do that (in Word 2000 and later) by making
the form "modeless"; change the line that launches the form,
which is probably like this:

MyUserFormName.Show

to:

MyUserFormName.Show vbModeless

Be aware that this brings on a pile of other considerations,
not the least of which is that the form loses some of its
"immediateness" -- that is, a normal ("modal") userform
has to be attended to before the user can do anything else.
And often that's what you need -- that is, the reason you
build a userform rather than a protected form is to require
the user to do something (fill blanks, checkboxes, etc.).
And there's no way to change a userform from modeless to
modal in the middle of execution.