How do I tell if Word is starting in Outlook?

[David Thielen]

How can I tell if Word is being started in Outlook or another application
that embeds Word?

If a user is starting Word, I want to pop up a getting started dialog box.
But if it is Outlook causing Word to load, I don't want to do that.

Also, in that case, is there an event I can use to know they are starting
Word itself - and it will be the first instance of Word brought up. I also
don't want to pop up the dialog if they open a second copy of Word.

Is the above clear enough?

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

According to the description, you are wondering how to detect if a word
process is started by user or by a program like outlook, and how to detect
if it is the first word instance. Am I right?

To detect if a word process is started by user or by a program like
outlook, we can check the winword process's parent process name. If its
parent is "explorer", we can generally say it is started by user.
The blog entry http://blogs.msdn.com/bclteam/archive/2006/06/20/640259.aspx
shows a method of getting a process's parent process name.

To detect if it is the first word instance, we can check if
Process.GetProcessesByName("winword") returns an empty arrary in the word
addin's Startup events.

Please let me know if you have any other concerns, or need anything else.

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Jialiang Ge [MSFT]]

Hello Dave,

Would you mind letting me know the result of the suggestions? If you need
further assistance, feel free to let me know. I will be more than happy to
be of assistance.

Have a great day!

Regards,
Jialiang Ge ([email protected], remove 'online.')
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[David Thielen]

Sorry for the delay - this works fine

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